Clarence King — Geologist 



Among his fellow-students who have 

 since become eminent in their respec- 

 tive professions were O. C. Marsh, 

 Arnold Hague and Samuel Parsons. 

 He graduated in 1862 with the de- 

 gree of B.S., being among the first 

 students of the Scientific School to 

 receive a degree from the faculty of 

 Yale College. 



During his college course, he was 

 a leader among his mates in athletic 

 sports, as well as in study of nature, 

 being captain of a baseball team and 

 stroke oar of a racing crew. 



During the winter following his 

 graduation, he was, for a time, a stu- 

 dent of glaciology under Agassiz, and 

 later became a devotee of the Rus- 

 kinian schools of art study under the 

 leadership of Russell Sturgis. 



In May, 1863, in company with 



his lifelong friend, James T. Gardiner, 



whose health had broken down under 



too close devotion to his studies, 



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