520 WILLIAM SMITH CLARE. 



Vol. III. On the American and European Oyster-Catcher. On Ibis 

 guaranna. 



Vol. IV. Notes on the Internal Anatomy of a Female Mina Bird {Graaila 

 rellgiosa). 



Vol. V. "Wild Hybrid Duck propagated between tiie Clangula Americana 

 and the Mergus cucullatus. 



Journal. 



Vol. II. Observatious on the Plumage of the Red and Mottled Owls. 



Vol. IV. Observations on the Ciiaracters and Habits of the Ocellated Tur- 

 key (Meleagris oceUata). Description and Habits of Birds of Yucatan. 



Vol. V. Further Accounts of Birds of Yucatan. Description of Pyranga 

 roseo-gularis. Tlie Dodo a Rasorial and not a Rapacious Bird. 



WILLIAM SMITH CLARK, M. A., PH.D., LL.D. 



William Smith Clark, M, A., Ph. D., LL. D., son of Dr. Ather- 

 ton and Harriet (Smith) Clark, was born, July 31, 1826, at Ashfield, 

 Mass., and received his early education there and at Williston Semi- 

 nary, Easthampton. Graduating from Amherst College in 1848, he 

 returned to Williston Seminary, where he taught the natural sciences 

 from 1848 to 1850. He then went abroad, and for the next two years 

 devoted himself to the study of chemistry and botany at Gottingen, 

 Germany, receiving from that University the degree of Ph. D., in 

 1852. 



On his return to this country, he was elected to the Chair of Chem- 

 istry, Botany, and Zoology in Amherst College, performing the duties 

 of that position from 1852 to 1858, and of the Chair of Chemistry alone 

 from 1858 to 1867, when he resigned to accept the Presidency of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College. This, and the Professorship of 

 Botany and Horticulture, he held from 1867 to 1879. He then became 

 interested in the project of a " floating college," and being made 

 President, bent all his energies, during the years 1879 and 1880, to 

 developing this scheme of uniting scientific study with a trip round the 

 world. It was abandoned, however, on the sudden death of its origi- 

 nator, Mr. Woodruff. He subsequently engaged in raining operations ; 

 and the last few years of his life were spent quietly at his home in 

 Amherst, vainly battling with the disease which had already sapped 

 the foundations of his life. lie died at his home, on March 9, 1886, 

 from an affection of the heart. 



At the breaking out of the war, in 1861, he hastened from the 

 lecture-room to offer his services in the field, and received a commis- 

 sion as Major in the 21st Massachusetts Volunteers, in August, 1861. 



