Century Necrological Note 



observations and notes. The experi- 

 ence probably shaped the course of 

 his scientific career. During the next 

 three years he was engaged on the 

 geological survey of California under 

 Prof. J. D. Whitney, with Prof. 

 William H. Brewer in charge of the 

 field work. He was an assistant to 

 Prof. Brewer in the exploration of 

 the Northern Sierras and the region 

 about Mount Shasta ; in an explora- 

 tion of the southern part of Sierra 

 Nevada, in which King discovered 

 and named Mount Whitney and 

 Mount Tyndall ; and with Gardiner 

 made a geological and topographical 

 survey of the Yosemite Valley. With 

 the same companion he undertook 

 and partially completed a survey of 

 Arizona, but the party was obliged 

 to give up the work on account of 

 the attacks of the Apaches. The 

 next summer, 1866, King and Gar- 

 diner made a survey of the Sierra 

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