382 John Wesley Powell. 



March, 1879, discontinued the separate surveys and established 

 the United States Geolo^^ical and Geographical Survey, under 

 the Department of the Interior, and Clarence King was 

 appointed Director. 



Beginning with his first visit to the Rocky Mountains, Major 

 Powell began ethnological and anthropological studies of the 

 American Indians, for the Smithsonian Institution. 



Ten years later, in 1876, Professor Henry, the then secre- 

 tary, placed this along with other accumulated material per- 

 taining to this subject in his hands, for arrangement and 

 publication. The next year, his first volume of "Contribu- 

 tions to North American Ethnology" was published by the 

 Geological Survey. Later followed five more of these quarto 

 volumes under the same auspices. 



With the establishment by Congress of the Geological Survey, 

 the Bureau of Anthropology was also established in the Smith- 

 sonian Institution and Major Powell made Director, an ofiice 

 he retained twenty-three years and until his death, and the 

 annual volumes of "Contributions" have continued in the 

 same general form. 



Mr. King resigned the directorship of the Geological Survey 

 in 1881, and Major Powell was appointed his successor, retain- 

 ing however the direction of the Ethnological Bureau, and for 

 thirteen years he administered both ofiices, and both institutions 

 were greatly widened in their work and improved in their 

 methods under his administration. 



In 1894 he resigned the ofiice of Director of the Geological 

 Survey and since then has devoted himself more to other work, 

 ethnological, anthropological, psychological and philosophical. 



Major Powell was endowed with an eminently philosophical 

 mind, had great administrative ability, was rich in suggestions 

 and fertile in originating and planning, in devising new work 

 and methods and in improving old ones ; had a personality of 

 great force, persuasive in inducing men to do, and he inspired the 

 confidence of those with whom he held official or social rela- 

 tions. He was a powerful advocate of reform in laws affecting 

 the permanent welfare of the West and was for many years 

 one of the most conspicuous personages in the scientific corps 

 under the government. He was a member of the National 

 Academy of Sciences and of other societies and clubs, and 

 several colleges and universities conferred academic degrees 

 upon him. 



Major Powell was a faithful and genial friend, and his most 

 interesting individuality made him many friends. He died of 

 apoplexy. His wife and a daughter survive him. 



Wm. H. Brewer. 



New Haven, Conn. 



