Synoptic Index 



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Completion of this work in 1872 231 



Organization of the United States Geological 



Survey in 1878 232 



Subsequent activities in scientific work .... 232 



His study of the physics of the Earth .... 233 



His literary work 234 



The Century Club — "the rag, tag and bobtail 



of all there is best in our country "... 234 



King's matchless talk 235 



His intense imagination 236 



His brilliant nature 236 



His unfailing kindness 236 



Edward Cary's review of King's Mountaineering 



in the Sierra Nevada 237 



Sketches, fourteen in number, originally published 



in Atlantic Monthly about 1869 .... 239 

 Four editions of the book brought out by James 



R. Osgood & Co., previous to 1874 . . . 239 



His earliest crossing of the continent .... 239 



A succinct statement of geologic history . . . 241 

 An intellectual effect akin to that given by certain 

 passages of Shakespeare in the expression of 



human consciousness 243 



View from the top of Mount Whitney .... 246 



King's charming narrative of personal adventure . 250 



" Kaweah's Run" 251 



The Newtys of Pike 251 



The artist of Cut-off Copples's 251 



An American classic 251 



Memoir by Samuel Franklin Emmons .... 253 



Clarence King — Geologist 255 



King's ancestry 256 



His father's death in China (1848) 258 



His mother a widow at twenty-two 258 



King's boyhood days at Newport and Hartford . 259 



At the Yale Scientific School (1859) 259 



Subsequent studies in science and art 1862-63 . 260 

 Journey across the continent in company with his 



friend James T. Gardiner 261 



Burnt out at Virginia City 262 



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