- Henry James Clark
Henry James Clark, American naturalist; born in
Easton, Massachusetts ,June 22 ,1826 ; graduated at theUniversity of New York 1848; became a pupil ofAsa Gray at the Cambridge botanical garden; graduated at the Lawrence Scientific School atHarvard 1854; assistant toLouis Agassiz till 1863, and also for three years adjunct Professor of Zoology at the Lawrence Scientific School; Professor of Natural Sciences inPennsylvania State College , near Bellefonte, 1866-69; Professor of Natural History inUniversity of Kentucky , Lexington, 1869-72; Professor of Veterinary Science inMassachusetts Agricultural College , Amherst, from 1872 until his death thereJuly 1 ,1873 . He contributed to theSmithsonian publications, to the Proceedings of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences , and to other learned periodicals. Author of "Mind in Nature" (Cambridge, 1863) and of the "Mode of Development of Animals" (New York, 1865). See A. S. Packard, Jr.'s Memoir in "Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences" (Washington, 1877). ["Universal Cyclopædia & Atlas ", 1902, New York, D. Appleton & Co.]References
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