8 The American Geologist. January, 1902. 
lakes, by throwing a bombshell into the geologists’ camp at 
the Cincinnati meeting of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, in a paper entitled: “Evidence from 
the Drift of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, in support of the 
Pre-glacial Origin of the Basins of Lakes Erie and Ontario.” 
At this same meeting he presented a paper on “An Archime- 
diform Fenestellid in Upper Silurian Rocks of Ohio,” and 
one on the “Life History of the Buckeye Stem Borer.—Ser- 
icoris instrutana.” He also contributed “Entomological Notes 
for the Summer of 1881,” to an issue of the Canadian En- 
tomologist of that year. 
While at Antioch College, in 1879, he was married to 
Katharine Benedicta Trotter, of Montreal, a second cousin 
of his first wife. This estimable lady survived him barely 
long enough to perform the loving labor of furnishing the 
material for this biography. The evidences of her devo- 
tion and helpfulness are apparent in all his later work. 
The world does not always learn of the influence of the 
“silent partner’ for good or ill, in a great man’s life—the 
wife—who by devotion and patient endurance, added to 
judicious counsel, makes his burdens light and his renown se- 
cure, or who may, unthinkingly or purposely, hold him down 
and prevent or mar his accomplishment. To those who knew 
him by his words and works it may seem unnecessary to look 
beyond those piercing, deep-set eyes, and those firm-closed lips, 
from which the tolerant smile was never absent, for an explana- 
tion of his power. But a closer examination of his life and 
times will reveal influences from sources too holy and sacred 
to be adequately estimated here. Suffice it to say that very 
few men have been so blessed in the home circle by intelli- 
gent and helpful co-operation of wife and children in scien-_ 
tific pursuits, and that no sketch of his career can be com- 
plete without a warm tribute of praise to both his devoted 
partners and to the daughters whose able original work 
stands beside his own in the transactions of the learned so- 
cieties of America. What all this must have been to him, and 
how deeply-woven have been these subtle influences into the 
life work of Edward Claypole we may but feebly comprehend. 
Sut there is due from one who was honored by the kindly 
friendship of Mrs. Claypole (she died at Pasadena, Cal., but a 
