Wilbur Clinton Knight. — Williston. 3 
scientific men in his own field of work, with but little litciature 
and means for comparative studies, his work was largely that 
of a pioneer, preparing the way for others. He found time 
among other things to bring together collections in paleontol- 
ogy of which any university might be proud. More than fifty 
tons of valuable fossils, chiefly vertebrates, were obtained for 
the university by his patient effort, and some of those young 
men whom he helped to train are now gaining reputations for 
themselves in paleontology. Only a few months before his 
death he published an excellent extended list of the biids of 
Wyoming, based upon material largely the result of his own 
labors. 
The larger part of his published papers, it will be seen, were 
devoted to economic geology, and the state owes him a debt of 
which I trust it feels fully conscious. Nevertheless, he pub- 
lished not a few papers of value on the stratigraphy, paleontol- 
ogy and natural history of Wyoming. In stratigraphic geology 
his chief services were in the more accurate mapping of parts of 
the state, in the recognition of the Lower Permian, in the 
recognition of the so-called Triassic or Red-beds as being, in 
part at least, of Permian age, in the more accurate determina- 
tions of the Jurassic horizons, etc. In paleontology he described 
a number of new forms of plesiosaurs. ichthyosaurs. fishes, etc. 
Much of the material which he accumulated is new* to science 
and of much interest, and it is unfortunate that he did not have 
the time and opportunity to study this material more fully. His 
limitations were those of a pioneer state — multiplicity of 
things to do, and the lack of means which can only be brought 
together by time. And his merits are largely those of a pi- 
oneer, merits which are often not appreciated at their full val- 
ue by the laboratory scientist. 
As' to his personal character, I am permitted to quote from 
a letter from a mutual friend, and colleague of professor 
Knight for ten years, professor E. E. Slosson : 
"Professor Knight habitually overworked himself day and 
night; he was not strong in constitution. He built his own 
assay furnaces, put up partitions and desks and bought his 
own books when appropriations were insufficient, as thev must 
always be in a new university. He was unfailingly courteous 
and kind hearted in his relations with others, never wounding 
