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and upon " Natural Theology" before the Lowell Institute, Bos- 

 ton, 1866. The latter were published in 1867. Author of "Instinct 

 in Animals and Man," 1872, and of more than fifty pamphlets, 

 essays, etc., on scientific subjects. The following honorary 

 degrees were conferred upon him: M.D., Berkshire Medi- 

 cal College, 1859; LL.D., Williams, 1868; D.D., Amherst, 

 1872. Died from an affection of the kidney, at New York, 23d 

 February, 1883. He married, 9th October, 1850, at Exeter, N. 

 H., Elizabeth Sawyer Page. Two of their three children are 

 living. 



WILLIAM SMITH CLARK, M. A., Ph.D., LL.D., son of Dr. 



Atherton and Harriet (Smith) Clark, was born 31st July, 1826, 

 at Ashfield, Mass. He prepared for college at Williston Semi- 

 nnry, Easthampton, and entered Amherst College in 1844, gradu- 

 ating in 1848. He taught the natural sciences at Williston Semi- 

 njiry from 1848-50 and then went abroad and studied chemistry 

 and botany at Goettingen, Ger., 1850-52, taking the degree of 

 Ph.D. at Goettingen, 1852. Was Professor of Chemistry, Bot- 

 any, and Zoology at Amherst College, 1852-58, and of Chemistry, 

 1858-67; President and Professor of Botany and Horticulture, 

 Mass. Agricultural College, 1867-79 ; organizer and first presi- 

 dent of the Imperial College of Agriculture, Sapporo, Japan, 

 1876-77. In 1879-80 he was made president of a floating college, 

 which enterprise, owing to the death of its originator, Mr. Wood- 

 ruff, was abandoned. Subsequently he turned his attention to 

 mining operations. 



When the war broke out in 1861, Mr. Clark was commissioned 

 Major, 21st Mass. Vols., becoming Lt. Col. in 1862, and Col- 

 onel the same year. Fie took part in the battles of Roanoke 

 Island, Newburn, Camden, second battle of Bull Run, Chan- 

 tilly, the Antietam and Fredericksburg. It was at the battle of 

 Chantilly, that losing his way and becoming separated from the 

 regiment, accompanied b}^ only a handful of men, he was sur- 

 rounded by the rebels and ordered to surrender. Preferring to 

 run every risk rather than encounter the horrors of Anderson- 

 ville or Libby, a desperate effort \\as made to escape, but all were 

 shot down except himself. Bullets whistled through his cap and 

 clothing, but unhurt, he reached the cover of the woods and lay 

 concealed within the enemy's lines for three days, suffering from 

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