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Aprit 1, 1909. 
Dear Bir: 
The enclosed circular lctter has bean prepared as 
a moans of raising funds for the erection of a monument over 
the grave of Major John Wesley Powell in Arlington National 
Cemetery, and you are hereby designated as a member of the 
Auxiliary Cormittee of one hundred to take up this impertant 
WOrk. It is hoped that you will personaliy interest 
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self in the promotion of the cause. Goples of the circular 
Letter will be sent to members of the National Academy of 
Sclences, the Geolorical Society of America, the Auertean 
Anthropological Association, and the Washington Acatemy of 
Soeiences. You area reanested to prepare and forward a list 
of others than those included in the organizations mentioned 
who mirht wish to contribute to the Pund, and you are author- 
ized to solicit, collect, and forward subscriptions. 
Please renort at the earliest convenient date to 
Colonel H. CG. Riger, Secretary of the Central Committee, 
U. S$. Geological Survey, Washington, D. C. 
YVory respectfully yours, 
he W. H. Holmes, Chairman, 
ibe Committee: H. C. Rizer, Secretary, 
Charles D. Walcott. 
