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his Directorship he thoroughly organized the U.S. Geological Survey, 

 and placed it on that broad and satisfactory footing which it has 

 since retained. 



Major Powell received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of 

 Heidelberg in 1886, and in the same year that of LL.D. from 

 Harvard College. He was a member of many learned and scientific 

 societies, and he became a Member of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science in 1875, its Vice-President in 1879, 

 and President in 1887. 



His publications embrace many scientific papers and addresses, 

 and numerous Government volumes, including Reports of various 

 Surveys of the Bureau of Ethnology and the U.S. Geological Survey. 

 The special volumes which bear his own name are ; Explorations 

 of the Colorado River of the West & its Tributaries/ 1875 ; 

 ' Report on the Geology of the Eastern Portion of the Uinta Moun- 

 tains,' 1876 ; ' Report on the Lands of the Arid Region of the 

 United States,' 1879 ; and ' Introduction to the Study of Indian 

 Languages,' 1880. [Geogr. Journ. vol. xx (1902) p. 663.] 



Arthur L. Collins was born on July 8th, 1868, at Truro (Corn- 

 wall), and received his training in mining and metallurgy under 

 the supervision of his father, Mr. J. H. Collins, F.G.S. While young 

 he went to Spain, and became assayer at one of the mines near 

 the Rio Tinto ; returning later on to Cornwall, where he became 

 assistant superintendent of a tin-mine. Erom England he went to 

 Norway to take charge of a zinc-mine, and in 1892 he was appointed 

 chief geologist and mineralogist to the Amir of Afghanistan, a post 

 which he held until 1894. In that year he went to America, to take 

 charge of mines in Colorado. Between 1894 and 1902 he visited 

 many other parts of the world on professional business, eventually 

 returning to Colorado, where he was shot by an unknown assassin 

 on November 19th last. He had been elected a Eellow of the 

 Geological Society in 1892. 



William Gxjnn, who had been a Eellow of this Society since 

 1876, was born on September 27th, 1837, at Wheatley, Cuddesdon, 

 near Oxford. Before joining the Geological Survey in 1867, he 

 spent several years in teaching, and during his leisure-moments 

 developed his knowledge of geology and botany. The first half of 

 his official career was occupied in mapping large areas of the six 

 northern counties of England, where he acquired an intimate 



