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111 1887 he established himself as an assayer at Cheyenne. From 

 1888 to 1893 he was superintendent of mines in Colorado and Wyoming. 

 During these years he had pursued courses of study leading to the degree 

 of Master of Arts, conferred by the University of Nebraska in 1893. He 

 served as state geologist from 1898 to 1899, and was professor of geology 

 in the University of Wyoming, at Laramie, to the time of his death. 

 Having been granted a leave of absence for the two years past, he was 

 serving as an oil expert for the Belgo- American Oil Company. 



After traveling and studying abroad, and after following a course of 

 special instruction in the University of Chicago, he spent several } T ears 

 in continuous graduate work in the University of Nebraska, and received 

 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy June 7, 1901. 



In spite of hard work, he preserved his youth and managed to find 

 moments for the continuance of student sports on the golf link, or ath- 

 letic field, or in riding, or in shooting and trout fishing. Those of us 

 who have accompanied him on excursions in Wyoming must remember 

 with admiration his quickness and accuracy with the gun and his skill 

 with the rod. It was a particular pleasure to him to conduct parties of 

 students or citizens on excursions to interesting points throughout the 

 state, whether for the purposes of scientific exploration or in the pursuit 

 of pleasure, recreation, and rest. His largest undertaking of this kind 

 was the Fossil Field Scientific Expedition of 1899, when some three hun- 

 dred colleges and scientific societies were invited to send delegates to join 

 him for a summer's collecting trip in the famous fossil fields of Wyoming. 



Out of deference to this ambitious undertaking, the Union Pacific 

 Railroad company, through Mr A. Darlow. rendered most courteous aid by 

 offering complimentary transportation over this line for the entire com- 

 pany. Doctor Knight furnished camp equipments, teams, cooks, guides, 

 and provisions for a party of about 100, comprising representatives from 

 every part of the United States, as well as from Canada, England, Scot- 

 land, and Germany. The result of this expedition, conceived of, organ- 

 ized, and successfully conducted by Doctor Knight, was the closer relation 

 of widely separated naturalists and investigators, their familiarity with 

 classic collecting grounds and field methods, and the discovery of many 

 new facts which have been or are to be published. His plan in this con- 

 nection, as confided to a few friends, was the organization of annual 

 expeditions to be conducted .at small cost and open to all students and 

 teachers the world over desirous of rest and study. Could these plans 

 have been carried to fruition on lines as broad and liberal as those of 

 which he conceived, there is no doubt of the resulting educational value. 



Having charge of the geological expeditions sent out annually by the 

 University of Wyoming, he had greatly systematized the work of collect- 



