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2. “Those refined and gentle manners which are the ex- 
pression of fixed habits of thought.” Who would need to look 
beyond the beaming countenance and the general bearing of 
the man to get an affirmative reply to any question of the appli- 
cation of this qualification to Edward Claypole? The manu- 
scripts which he left unpublished fully attest the well formed 
habit of thinking. 
3. “The power and habit of reflection.” This describes his 
method of attacking every problem and marks the very pivot 
of his career. One is forcibly struck with the permanent value 
of all that he has published. It will stand because it is the re- 
sult of careful reflection. 
4. “The power of intellectual growth.” If we study the 
development of any great man minutely we shall not fail to dis- 
cern, in later life, a power to use past experience and past 
learning as tools for greater and more rapid conquests. It was 
the constant intellectual growth of this man which enabled him 
with the little time and few opportunities at his command, to 
gain an understanding of the structure and geologic history of 
California mountain ranges which was most remarkable. His 
address upon this subject one year ago before the Geological 
Section of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, in 
Los Angeles, and his paper read before the Cordilleran Section 
of the Geological Society of America, December, 1900, in 
San Francisco, amply bear out this statement. 
5. ‘Efficacy, the power to do.” What has already been 
told of his scientific work is more than enough to prove his 
fitness here; but it is far from the just estimate of his worth 
and deeds. 
There are otner aspects of the man as a scientist which 
have not yet been touched; the subject is too broad for more 
than hasty generalization, but it is very difficult to condense 
the facts within proper limits. 
Many friends have remarked the general resemblance of 
his projecting brow and deep-set eyes to those features in 
the countenance of Darwin, although the nose and smile on the 
lips were characteristically his own. In some respects his 
physiognomy was not unlike Joseph LeConte’s, his warm 
friend, in whose life there was much to parallel his own. 
In the winter of 1900, Dr. Claypole went to visit LeConte 
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