Editorial Comment. 247 
EDITORIAL COMMENT. 
EDWARD WALLER CLAVPOLE. 
Prof. E. W. Claypole, one of the charter members of the 
Geological Publishing Company, died at Long Beach, Cal- 
ifornia, Aug. 17. He had been complaining of a "nervous 
trouble," as he termed it, for some time. It had settled in his 
left hand and his right foot, and hampered him so that he 
could not get about as he had been used to do. In a recent 
letter to the writer he remarked that lie had had the most har- 
assing year of his life, resulting from the sickness of Mrs. 
Claypole and his owii disability. His trouble culminated in a 
sudden rheumatic attack at the heart whch brought on uncon- 
sciousness which continued until his death, two days later, at 
sixty-six years of age. 
Born in England he adopted America, but with a lingering 
love for his boyhood's hearthstone, which caused him to re- 
vert a/fectionately to the associations and institutions of his 
native land. He was well known in England as a geologist 
prior to his coming to the L^nited States, and several of his 
scientific contributions written since have also been published 
in England. 
His was a retiring, scientific temper and turn of iiiind 
and manner. He disliked the heat of any dispute, and rarely 
mixed in any fray. His even tenor of mind was displayed in 
the character of all hs paners. ^le seemed to think the power 
of truth was so great that it required only a plain and simple 
statement to make it invincible, however its acceptance might 
be delayed bv error and misrepresentation. In a (juiet way 
however, he was unswerving from what he considered right, 
and would return to the same, when oin)osed, from diffe-ent 
points of view, though never with direct contradiction of his 
opponent. In that he always displayed the highest type of 
mental civility. 
His services to geological science were numerous and high- 
ly important, and will 1)e noted more in detail in a future n.um- 
ber of the Geolegtst, to which he was a frequent contributor. 
