CLARENCE KING. Clarence King, geologist and mining engineer, died at Phoenix, Arizona, on December 24, 1901. He was born in Newport, Rhode Island, January 6, 1842, so that at the time of his death he had not quite completed his sixtieth year. Immediately after his death his body was brought from Arizona to New York City, where funeral services were held, and later taken to Newport for interment. The funeral services, which were conducted at the Brick Presbyterian Church by the Reverend Henry Van Dyke, were attended by many of his friends in New York, comprising the leading representatives there in science, art, literature and commerce, and a body of some forty prominent members of the Century Club, of which he was a most popular and honored member. Clarence King stood entirely alone in his world-wide reputation as a mining geologist, and as the pioneer in systematic geological exploration under government control. Just as Hayden was the great master of general reconnaissance work over great areas of the West at a time when they were almost unknown, so King stands out beyond all other explorers for his more quantitative examination of the West's mineral deposits. He was the organizer and the first director of the United States Geological Survey. In order to express the profound sorrow felt by his co-laborers in the field of geology at the death of Mr. King a meeting was held in the office of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, at Washington, on Saturday, December 28. The meeting was attended by all of the scientific men of the Bureau. Addresses were made by Major J. W. Powell, Hon. Charles D. Walcott and Mr. S. F. Emmons. The following resolutions, offered by Major Powell and seconded by Mr. Hague, were unanimously adopted as an expression of their great loss in the death of so eminent a leader of geological science: |