294 Professor John M. Clarke. 
of investigation that he has pursued for some years is the geological 
beginnings of symbiosis and parasitism, and he has now in press a 
work on the Origin of Dependent Life and the Significance of Disease, 
a treatise based essentially on paleontological data. 
Mr. Clarke has been president of the Geologial Society of America 
and of the Paleontological Society. He was Chairman of the War 
Committee on Geology under the first organization of the National 
Research Council, and is Chairman of the Geology and Paleontology 
Section of the National Academy of Sciences. He has received the 
degree of LL.D. from Amherst and Johns Hopkins, and D.Sc. from 
Princeton, Chicago, and Colgate. He has also reccived the award 
of the Hayden Gold Meda! of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 
Sciences and the Spindiaroff prize of the International Geological 
Congress. Outside of his own proper branches of science he has 
concerned, himself actively in the conservation of the native birds, 
and the native flora, and for aid rendered in protection of the wild- 
fowl colonies of the Gulf of St. Lawrence has received the rare gold 
medal of the Wild Life Permanent Protection Fund. A township 
in Gaspé, where he has spent many seasons of scientific work, has 
been named for him by the Quebec Board of Geographic Names. 
Mr. Clarke is a member and officer in a good many societies, 
scientific and, historical, and among others is a corresponding member 
of the Geological Society of London. He has been for several years 
President of the Albany Burns Club, one of the oldest literary clubs 
in America, and is now President of the venerable Albany Institute 
and Historical and Art Society (founded 1791). 
Space will not permit us to add a list of titles of all Professor J. M. 
Clarke’s publications, but we desire to refer to some of the more 
important :— 
1. Paleontology of New York, vol. vii (with James Hall): “ Trilobites and 
other Crustacea of the Devonian of New York.’ 1888. 
2. Paleontology of New York, vol. viii, pts. i, 11 (with James Hall): “ Intro- 
duction to the study of the genera of Paleozoic Brachiopoda. 1894. 
3. Handbook of the Brachiopoda (with J. Hall), 2 vols. 1894. S8vo. 
4. The Paleozoic Reticulate Sponges—constituting the family Dictyospongide 
(with J. Hall). 1898. 
[Note.—Nos. 1-4, these were all written by J. M. Clarke. ] 
5. The “ Naples’ (Upper Devonian) Fauna in Western New York. 1904. 
6. Karly Devonic of New York and Eastern North America, 2 vols. 1909. 
7. Fossus Devonianes du Parana. 1903. 
8. “ Guelph” Formation and Fauna of New York State (with R. Ruedemann. 
1903. 
9. In 1912 Clarke, assisted by Dr. Rudolph Ruedemann, issued two grand 
volumes from the State Museum, Albany, entitled Memoir 14, The 
Eurypterida of New York (one volume of text pp. 440 quarto, with 121 
text-figures, and one volume of 88 plates and pp. 441-628 of explanation 
of plates (with a full index). It is delightful to find in these volumes 
such a grand collection of new material relating to the American 
Merostomata all carefully studied and described, together with copious 
foreign literature relating to the order.1—H.W. 
(Except No. 3 all the quarto publications.) 
1 See Gron. Maa., 1913, pp. 293-300. 
