Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-27
OF SCIENCE
Tributes to Memory of c. S.
Noyes and Paul BeckWith.
DEPARTED EDITOR PRAISED
Prof. Otis T.. Mason Eulogizes His
Life and Ideals.
CAREER OF PAUL BECKWITH
Officers Elected and New Bylaws
Adopted at Meeting Of the
Anthropological Society.
CAREER OF PAUL BECKWITH

At the annual meeting of the Anthrop-
illogical Society of Washington at the
Cosmos Club last night new bylaws were
adopted. officers elected and tributes to
the memory of Crosby Stuart Noyes. by
Prof. Otis C. Mason. and Of Paul Beck
with. by DR.. Walter Hough. were read
In his address on the death of Mr.
Noyes. who for many years was an active
members Of the society, Prof. Mason said
In the death of the late Crosby Stuart
Noyes the .Anthropological Society of
Washington lost one of its oldest and
most distinguished members. While his
| fellow-citizens of high station in legisla-
| tive, executive. judicial and business life
| are paying just tribute to his memory I
| take great pleasure in bearing testimony
to this interest in our science
Mr.. Noyes' Only Hobby.
TT is now more than thirty-five years
since l talked with him about our hob
! bies Having explained to him my de-
| votion to culture history. he with great
enthusiasm said, My one and only hobby
is The Evening Star. To conduct an
evening paper worthy of the nations cap
| ital will be my best contribution to the
science of man Only a few weeks ago.
| on the approach of his eighty-third ami
versary l found him sitting at his desk.
| and the passing years had not changed
| his thought. Our theme was Grecian art
under the Seleucidae. In the half CEN
| fury retrospect of The Star. December IL.
! 1902 Mr. Moves places the portrait of
| Prof Joseph Henry among those who had
been his inspirers in 1852.
Mr.. Noyes was an excellent specimen
| of all that our society stands for, that
| most comprehensive of the sciences which
traces the story of civilization up from
the primitive thought of the lowest savage
| in any direction to the highest hopes of
| man. 1t is a long, long perspective and
| a steady climb.
On the Topmost Plateau.
"On its topmost plateau stood our de-
parted friend. He was an earnest advo-
cate. liberal patron and shining ex-
| ample of the best in speech. in working
methods and fine art. His family life
was beautiful, his children rise up to call
him blessed. In all the walks of socia!
life he cultivated the noblest ideals.
Labor. charity. education. civic virtues.
legisla tion law, the professions knew al
ways where to find him.
THE National capital was his pet. He
found it in 1S47 struggling village, laid
out on glorious pan, Dut i-dNIAS oAIy
one paved street. There was. indeed the
National Intellgencsr with its half col
umn of respectable commonplace, but
that now gives way to a great daily
journal whose Sunday issue of 100
pages or more contains enough matter
to make a fair-szed library
When Mr. Noyes arrived in Washing
ton, December. 1S47. it was The meeting
of a great mind with golden opportu-
nifty. Prof. Henry's plan of organizing
the Smithsonian Institution for the in
crease and diffusion of knowledge had
just been adopted. The National 1nsti-
iute 1Si1-1S6D represented the sciences:
the Smithsonian public lectures were
from 1S49-1sS5: the patent Office was for
anthropology; although Prof. Baird be-
gan his brilliant career in 1880. the ex
ecutive departments had not thought yet
of those Investigations into the applied
sciences which now make them famous.
The National Academy was founded in
1863 the Washington Philosophical So
ciety was organized in 1871 and the An
thropological Society in 1879. Mr.. Noyes
joined US In 1857 and remained an active
member until his death.
Interest in the Sciences.
Through all these forty years 1S47
1851 and in the twenty years succeed
ing our friend kept his eye on the grow
ing sciences. A visitor once remarked
TO Joseph Henry: Professor. you know
every thing No was the reply but l
can find a man in Washington who
Does aIluding to the assembling Of Gull
tivated minds already begun here. We
think in this connection of Mr.. Noyes
early reportorial work on scientific lee
lures and the increased diffusion of
knowledge and of his great skill after
ward shown IN selecting such men as
Harry Goodwin. Rudolph Kaufman,
George H. Harries and w. B. Bryan to
follow in his footsteps.
I'VE lay our dear colleague in his last
resting place with the ardent hope that
the progress of our beloved science may
find in the corps of the daily journals
many such worthy advocates
Tribute to Paul Beckwith.
Dr. Walter Hough. following Prof. Ma
son. spoke Of Paul Beck~ith. who at the
time of his death. June 81, 1907. was as
sistant curator of the United States
National Museum and also a prominent
member of the society. as follows:
Many years OF his life were spent in
travel and residence abroad. He was
student at Heidelberg and at one time
was a member of the Papal Guard at
Rome.
Returning to America he began the
practice of his profession Of mining en-
gineer. Subsequently he became Indian
agent and contributed a paper on the
myths of the Dakotas to the Smithsonian
Institution Report. Later he was made
aid in the department of history. Ma
tional Museum. but resigned to follow
| mining About fifteen years ago he was
| made assistant curator in the division Of
| history. which position he held till his
death. He represented the museum IN
Porto Rico and Cuba after the Spanish
war collecting many historical relics.
| He published a work. The Creoles Of
| St. Louis and had prepared a manu-
| script OF a genealogical work.
He was an expert numismatist and his
! article on Indian medals. in the Hand
! book of American Indians published by
the bureau of American ethnology. is
| said to be the best presentation of the