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familiar to him in a way that shaped his whole future life. 
While the larger part of his attention in later years was devot- 
ed to geological and chemical pursuits, I have reason to believe 
that, could he have been left free to follow his own inclinations, 
he would have preferred to give his life to purely paleonto- 
logical and stratigraphical studies, and he never fully recon- 
ciled himself to his limitations. 
He graduated at the University of Nebraska in 1896, in the 
scientific course. He left his country home, where there was 
little stimulus for intellectual life, to enter college at an age 
when most young men graduate, and worked his way thiough 
his course by setting type at night time. Immediately after 
his graduation, he went to Wyoming to serve as an assistant 
geologist on the territorial survey. In this position, and as an 
assayer and superintendent of mines of Colorado and Wyom- 
ing he served until called to the professorship of Geology and 
Mining at' the newly founded University of Wyoming, at 
Laramie, in 1893, a position which he held uninterruptedly, 
with the added duties, concurrently or successively, of geologist 
of the Wyoming experiment station, curator of the State AIu- 
seum, state geologist, and principal of the School of Mines of 
the State University, until his death from peritonitis, July 28 
of the past year. He received the degrees of M.A. and Ph.D. 
from his alma mater in 1893 and 1901, and had also spent some 
time in graduate study at the University of Chicago. He was 
for years a fellow of the Geological Society of America, and 
was a member of the Institute of Mining Engineers, of the 
National Geographic Society, and of other societies. 
During the ten years of his incumbency of the professor- 
ship at the University of Wyoming, professor Knight found 
time, notwithstanding the multiplicity and arduousness of his 
labors, to publish many valuable contributions to geological 
and paleontological science, a list of which, as compiled by his. 
colleague, professor A. Nelson, will be found appended here- 
with. Indeed those who knew him can only be surprised at the 
tireless and incessant activity which enabled him to acco'uplish 
so much of real value. But his publications tell only a part 
of what he did, and that too with oftentimes the most meagre 
means at his command and amid discouragements which few 
can appreciate. Almost isolated from companionship with 
