Samuel Franklin Emmons 



and thus better able to carry on its 

 purely scientific work, than any or- 

 ganization of its kind in the world. 



King set the very highest standard 

 for its work, and showed remarkable 

 judgment and knowledge of character 

 in his selection of the men who, in 

 their respective branches, were best 

 fitted to keep it up, as nearly as pos- 

 sible, to this standard. In his estab- 

 lishment of a physical laboratory for 

 the determination of the physical con- 

 stants of rocks, he took a step in the 

 direction of the application of methods 

 of exact science to geological problems 

 so far in advance of the average stand- 

 ards of the day that its importance was 

 not generally realized until long after. 



In all his after-life, he maintained 

 a lively interest in the work of the 

 Survey, and kept closely in touch 

 with his successors in office, who fre- 

 quently consulted him on important 

 questions of policy. 



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