WILLIAM BULLOCK CLARK. 1 



Dr. William Bullock Clark, professor of geology in the Johns 

 Hopkins University, eminent for his contributions to geology, died 

 suddenly from apoplexy on July 27, 1917, at his summer home at 

 North Haven, Maine. 



William Bullock Clark was born at Brattleboro, Vermont, De- 

 cember 15, 1860. His parents were Barna A. and Helen (Bullock) 

 Clark. Among his early ancestors were Thomas Clark, who came 

 to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the ship Ann in 1623 and who was 

 several times elected deputy to the general court of Plymouth Col- 

 ony; Richard Bullock, who same to Salem, Massachusetts, in 1613; 

 John Howland, a member of council, assistant to the governor, and 

 several times deputy to the general court of Plymouth Colony, who 

 came to Plymouth in the Mayflower in 1620 ; John Tilly, who like- 

 wise came in the Mayflower; and John Gorham, captain of Massa- 

 chusetts troops in King Philip's War. Among later ancestors were 

 William Bullock, colonel of Massachusetts troops in the French and 

 Indian War, and Daniel Stewart, a minuteman at the Battle of Lex- 

 ington in 1775. 



Clark studied under private tutors and at the Brattleboro High 

 School, from which he graduated in 1879. He entered Amherst Col- 

 lege in the autumn of 1880 and graduated with the degree of A. B. 

 in 1884. He immediately went to Germany and from 1884 to 1887 

 pursued geological studies at the University of Munich, from which 

 he received the degree of doctor of philosophy in 1887. Subsequently 

 he studied at Berlin and London, spending much time in the field with 

 members of the geological surveys of Prussia and Great Britain. 



Before leaving Munich Doctor Clark was offered and accepted the 

 position of instructor in the Johns Hopkins University. He was in- 

 structor from 1887 to 1889, associate from 1889 to 1892, associate 

 professor from 1892 to 1894, and professor of geology and head of 

 the department from 1894 until the time of his death. He had been 

 for a long time a member of the academic council — the governing 

 body of the university — and always took a very active interest in its 

 affairs, acting as one of the committee of administration while the 

 university was without a president. 



1 Reprinted from Science, Aug. 3, 1917, n. s. vol. 46, No. 1179. 



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