22 The American Geologist. January, 1902. 
scientifically put together and they clearly indicate the source 
of the perspicuous language employed in all Dr. Claypole’s 
scientific writings. 
Some of the titles of these completed manuscripts are here 
given :— 
King Lear. (Not read, but a most excellent review.) 
History of the Play of Hamlet. (A remarkable piece of work.) 
The English of Hamlet. Shakespeare Club, Buchtel College, 1885; 
(A masterful analysis). 
Fossil Teachers. School meeting of Summit & Portage Co.’s, at 
Akron, O., Oct. 1, 1885. 
“These are the fossil teachers. They are very interesting speci- 
mens—very valuable for the museum. It is very instructive to meet 
with them and talk to them and find out how may things were done 
years ago. It is very entertaining to hear their objections to new 
methods and subjects, and to see how stereotyped it is possible 10 be- 
come, how antiquated a man may be without knowing or suspecting it. 
But however entertaining and amusing such characters may be they 
are not the teachers for the present day.” 
“In fact, the self improvement of the teacher is the key to his 
own progress and to the progress of his pupils.” 
The Cyclone and the Weather,—(Uncertain date.) 
(Dr. C.’s daughter relates an interesting incident illustrating his 
keen sense of the duty of recording observations of natural phenom- 
ena. After the storm he rushed home and upon meeting his children, 
he excitedly exclaimed “Did you read the barometer ?”) 
Slovenly work :—Read at the meeting of the Ohio College Assoc- 
iation at Cleveland, O., December, 1885. 
“Too much classic reading is required and too little classic knowl- 
edge; too many pages of mathematical books and too little mathemat- 
ics; too much Chambers and Taine and Hart and Bertillion, and 
too little English Literature and English Grammar; too much Huxley 
and Martin and Youmans and too little cray-fish and butterfly and 
bird.” 
“IT may be mistaken, I may be fanatical in some points. but if 
you doubt all the rest I have said, if you dispute my premises and deny 
my conclusions, yet let me commend the central thought of this essay 
to at least careful consideration: ‘Less work better done.’ ” 
The Firmament of Genesis. (Date unknown). (A full presen- 
tation of the argument against literal interpretation of scripture, 
evincing a remarkable familiarity with Hebrew. 
Geology and Theology. (An essay of convincing logic without 
acerbity. ) 
On the teaching of Geology. Read before Ohio College Assoc- 
iation at Springfield, O., Dec., 1&&s5. 
“For the fundamental doctrine of science js the constancy and 
inevitability of natural law—its unswerving constancy, its inevitable 
