The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States
The remains of Echinodermata are found in Mesozoic deposits at nearly all horizons and at widely separated localities but are much more numerous and characteristic in Cretaceous than in Triassic and Jurassic strata. In several of the Cretaceous formations they are among the most valuable diagnostic fossils, and at a few localities they occur in vast numbers.
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The Coastal Plain of North Carolina, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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A, Thin veneer of materials of the Lafayette formation con sisting of smoothly rounded pebbles and cobbles in a matrix of coarse sand, miles southwest of Samaria. N. C..
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In the treatment...)
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In the treatment of the subject in the pages of this paper the Eocene, so far as practicable, will be separated into three divisions (1) Lower. (2) Middle. (3) Upper. Although in many localities too little is known 'of the deposits, due to the partial representation of the series, to make an accurate determination possible, yet where best developed a triple division is the most natural.
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Method of Travel at the End of the Eighteenth Century stage-lines and Stages. The Pains and Pleasures of Travel.
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William Bullock Clark was an American geologist and educator. He served as a professor of geology at Johns Hopkins University from 1894 to 1917 and state geologist for Maryland from 1896 to 1917.
Background
William Bullock Clark, the son of Barna A. and Helen (Bullock) Clark, was born on December 15, 1860, at Brattleboro, Vermont, United States. His earliest American ancestors were Thomas Clark who arrived at Plymouth in 1623 on the ship Ann; Richard Bullock who came to Salem in 1643; and John Howland who came to Plymouth on the Mayflower.
Education
Clark received his early training under private tutors and at the Brattleboro high school, from which he graduated in 1879, entering Amherst College in 1880 and graduating in 1884. Immediately after graduation, Clark went to Germany, where he devoted himself to geological studies under Professors Groth, Rothpletz, and Zittel and received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Munich in 1887, after which he gained experience in field work with the official surveys of Prussia and Great Britain.
Career
In 1887 Clark entered upon the duties as instructor in geology in Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, advancing rapidly through the academic grades. In 1894 he became full professor and head of the department, a position he continued to occupy until his death. In addition to his professional duties, Clark became in 1888 an assistant geologist on the United States Geological Survey, and in 1892 was appointed director of the Maryland State Weather Service. In 1896 he was elected State Geologist of Maryland, in 1906 executive officer of the State Board of Forestry, and in 1910 State Road Commissioner; these offices he continued to hold for the remainder of his life. In addition, he was appointed in 1900 to represent the state in the resurvey of the Maryland-Pennsylvania or Mason- Dixon line and in 1908 was adviser to the governor at the White House conference on conservation.
He died suddenly and unexpectedly at his summer home in North Haven, 1917.
Clark’s early geological work involved a study and exploration of the sedimentary deposits of southern Maryland. For several years he carried on this work at his own expense; later, under the auspices of the United States Geological Survey, he prepared a bulletin on the Eocene Deposits of the Middle Atlantic Slope in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia and monographs on the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echinodermata of the United States. During his administration of the state survey, there were issued over thirty volumes of reports dealing with building stones, clays, coals, limestones, and other mineral deposits, and in cooperation with the federal bureaus there were prepared and published fifty-seven county maps. As a teacher Clark was eminently successful. “There are not a few graduates of his department who have said that he was the most potent influence in their lives”. He insisted on thorough groundwork and permitted no specialization until the student had covered the entire broad field of science, organic as well as inorganic.
(Excerpt from Maryland Geological Survey, Vol. 3
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Membership
Clark rendered efficient service for sixteen years as president of the Henry Watson Children’s Aid Society and was a member of the executive committee of the Maryland Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis and vice-president and chairman of the executive committee of the Alliance of Charitable Agencies of Baltimore. He was president of the Association of American State Geologists, a foreign correspondent of the Geological Society of London, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft, the Paleontologische Gesellschaft, Mining and Metallurgical Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Personality
Clark was a man of wide interests, with a large and influential circle of acquaintances, and of such varied accomplishments that it was more than once said of him that he would have succeeded in life whatever calling he might have adopted.
Connections
Clark was married on October 12, 1892, to Ellen Strong, daughter of Edward A. Strong of Boston.