Edward Claypole, The Scientist—Comstock. 7 
tered the lists without the most thoughtful preparation. His 
arguments in this case were invincible, although not greedily 
accepted by his compeers in science. In this manner the sub- 
ject of the ice age became his specialty, and with this he was 
identified very closely in after years of his life of diligent re- 
search. 
His chair at Antioch was as broad as was common in those 
‘days, when natural history branches were not fairly out 
of swaddling clothes. His mind clearly recognized the unity 
in variety of all nature; hence we find numerous notes recorded 
in various periodicals of the times, in the newspapers and 
elsewhere, on topics relating to botany and zoology, as well 
as to geology. In 1877, he wrote an admirable and well-timed 
article for the introduction to S. A. Miller’s “American Palaeo- 
zoic Fossils’, on the subject of Nomenclature. 
For years familiar with the work and writings of Prof. 
Claypole, and many times charmed with his tasteful diction, 
the detailed examination of his papers for the purpose of this 
sketch, has more strikingly emphasized on the writer the won- 
derful clearness of his most technical publications and the per- 
manent value of even the smallest scrap of observations record- 
ed by his pen. He tells of the number and variety of insects 
caught at night under the electric light with the enthusiasm 
andinterest of a school-girl, and the facts are as valuable and as 
well embalmed for future use as in a technical presentation. 
His description of a tornado and explanation of its causes reads 
like a romance, but it has all the scientific accuracy of an astute 
treatise. 
Thus he appears in 1877 in a paper read before the Mon- 
treal Horticultural Society and reprinted in the Quarterly Jour- 
ral of the Geological Society of London, on “Migration of 
Plants from Europe to America”, and again in 1878, in the 
same medium, on “Migration of Animals from America to 
‘Europe and Vice Versa.” In 1877, he also contributed to 
“Psyche,” of Cambridge, Mass., a paper “On a Borer in the 
Leaf Stalk of the Buckeye.” In 1878, again, he describes in 
the “American Journal of Science,” and in the English “Geo- 
logical Magazine,” “Glytodendron—Fossil Upper Silurian 
Tree.” Then there is another silent working period, until 1881, 
when he follows up his earlier work on the basins of the great 
