CLARKE, JOHN MASON

(1857), an American geologist, 6. at Canandaigua, | given J. ¥. He was educated at Amherst|to ind at the University of Gottingen. He] greatne , was profe or of geology and mineralogy standard 1t Smith College from 1881-4 and same | of 16 Ren alaer Poly. Inst. in 1894. In|so-called 1904 he became state geologist and pale-| over mtologist and director of the State} became Museum and the science department of| us, the University of the State of New York.|grew In addition to writing numerous geol.| and paleontol. books and papers he was | became the author of: Sketches of Gaspe, The | Magdalen Islands, Life of James Hall, | otus Heart of Gaspe. (1846-81), Australian author; For the Term of His Natural also dramatic pieces.