TRIBUTE TO MEMORY OF MAJ. C. E, DUTTON 
Army Officer Who Achieved Distinction in the Field 
of Science. 
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Ma j . Clarence Edward Dutton of the bureau of ordnance, 
U. S. A., who died at the home of his son in Englewood, N. J., 
Thursday night, was well known in this city. He was a graduate 
of Yale, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1860, at the 
age of nineteen years. He served in the civil war, and in 1864 
was transferred to the ordnance department of the army. His 
scientific studies, which began at the W&terviliet Arsenal, 
took two directions -one toward vertebrate paleontology , the 
other toward steel. 
Assigned to Washington in 3.872 . 
About 1872 lie was assigned to this city, where he met 
Prci . nenry and Maj. Powell, who increased his interest in 
geology and finally secured his detail to the Powell survey in 
18 iO. Eg made a special study of the high plateaus of Utah 
the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and also of Mount Taylor and 
