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men like him, except where he had. not had opportunity to be- 
come acquainted. The friendship of Henry W. Bellows, of 
New York, and Rev. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston, gave 
him work in Latin teaching and the reviewing of text-books. 
Dr. Hale secured for him in 1873, the chair of natural science 
at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Olio. Dr. Edward Or- 
ton, afterwards the state geologist of Ohio, was his predeces- 
sor there. Horace Mann, the great light in American educa- 
tion, was the founder of Antioch. Professor Claypole re- 
mained eight years in this position, retiring when the institu- 
tion temporarily closed from lack of financial support. Soon 
after going there another bitter trial came to him in the terrible 
death of his young son, who fell from a railroad train in 
England. 
This period of his life covered one of those terms of pre- 
paration and mental digestion which, to the casual observer, 
may seem comparatively unfruitful. But it is certain that a very 
large part of the results of his observation and deliberation, 
which appeared in later years was based upon studies made 
during this epoch. Heavy demands. were made upon him for 
work outside his regular department. His equipment, as we 
know, was broad and thorough, but much time which might 
better have been devoted to scientific investigation was con- 
sumed in teaching languages and other subjects not germane 
to his chair. 
In the eight years of his incumbency he produced thirteen 
papers of importance bearing mainly upon Ohio geology, but 
these came at intervals which plainly attest the serious method 
of the investigator. Not until two years after going to Yellow 
Springs did he get into print on the subject of his work there. 
In 1875, he read a very valuable paper before the Cincinnati 
Society of Natural History, entitled “Present State of the 
Glacial Controversy”. 
In 1877, he contributed to the “Canadian Naturalist” a pa- 
per on the “Preglacial Formation of the beds of the Great 
Lakes”, following in 1878 with a second article on the same 
subject. These contained, apparently, the first announcement 
of views which afterwards made him the doughty opponent 
of some of the sires of American geology. But his contests 
were never waged save in the cause of truth and he never en- 
