The American Geologist. Oc-tot.er, 1902. 
field, and the party greatly enjoyed a visit from President W. 
G. Tight, of the University of New Mexico, and profited hy 
Pres. 'right's knowledge of the physiogra])hy. 
The American Institute oi- Minmno Engineers will 
hold its eighty-third meeting at New Haven, Connecticut, he- 
ginning on Tuesday evening, ( )ctol)er 14th. Among the im- 
])ortant features of the program are : opportunity for inspec- 
tion of the new bi-centennial buildings of Vale University, 
and also the plant of the SheffiNcld Scientific School, including 
Yale Foreiit School; excursions to i)oints of geological, his- 
torical and scenic interest in the vicinity of New Haven ; a 
biographic notice of the late Clarence King, prepared jointly 
bv a number of his friends and associates. Louis V. Pirrson, 
137 Wall St., New Haven, is secretary of the local committee. 
Major J. W. Powell, Director of the Bureau op 
Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution and formerly Di- 
rector of the United States (Geological Survey, died at his 
summer residence in Haven, Maine, at six o'clock on the after- 
noon of September 23. 
I'uneral services were held at his late home in Washington. 
h^-ida\- afternoon, September 26, the interment taking place 
in the National Cemetary at Arlington. The active pall- 
bearers were Messrs. J. K. Hillers, W. H. Holmes, H. C. 
Rizer, J. D. McChesney, G. K. Gil1)ert, and Cyrus Thomas. 
The honorary pallbearers were C. D. Walcott, represent- 
ing the Geological Survey; Charles j. Pell, the National Geo- 
graphical Society ; Edward M. Gallaudet ; W. J. McGee, the 
Bereau of Ethnology ; Wm. T. Harris, the Bureau of Educa- 
tion ; George M. Sternberg, the Cosmos Club; Herbert Ogden 
the Coast and Geodetic Survev ; W. F. Hillebrand, the Amer- 
ican Chemical Society ; Frank L. Campbell, x\ssistant 
Secretary of the Interior ; D. C. (iilman. the Carnegie Insti- 
tution ; Marcus Baker, the Geograjjliical and Historical 
Societies; b^rank leaker, the Anthropological !!-j|0ciety ; Martin 
F. Morris, the Literary Society; C. W. Hayes, tne Geological 
Society of America; Richard Rathl)un. the Philosoj^hical 
Societv ; Wm. B. Clark, the Johns Hoj^kins University; J. 
McBride Sterrett, the Columbian University ; A. W. Greely. 
the United States Army ; W. H. Dall, the Biological Society ; 
W. P. Hepburn, and a committee of the Loyal Legion. 
Memorial services were held in the lecture room of the 
National Museum on Friday afternoon, where the customary 
resolutions were passed and remarks by Richard Rathbun, the 
Assistant Secretarv of the Smithsonian Institution ; Dr. W. H. 
Dall ; Dr. D. C. Gilman ; C. D. W^alcott, of the Geological Sur- 
y^y ; W. T. Harris ; Marcus Baker ; and W. J. McGee. 
