The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-27
THE LATE CLARENCE KING.

One of Yale's Most Distinguished | Younger Sons-Sketch of His Career. Clarence King. geologist, mining en- gineer and traveller, who passed away in Arizona Wednesday was born in Newport, R. l., January 6, 1S42 and
 was graduated from the Sheffield Scien- | tific school in 1862. In the spring of the
 new year he and his college mate,
 John T. Gardiner, crossed the continent with an emigrant train Tor the sake of
 seeing the entire intreior of the conti-
 nent King making careful geological
 observations during the four months journey on horseback.
 In the autumn of 1863 he joined the California geological survey under Pro- lessor J. D. Whitney, with Professor William H. Brewer in charge of field
 work During the fall the latter, with King, explored the northern Sierras and the region about Mount Shasta, and in the winter King joined in the examina- tion of the famous Mariposa mines. In the following spring. at his inducement a party under Professor Brewer was fit- ted out to explore the southern part of Sierra Nevada, and in this trip King discovered and named Mount Whitney and Mount Tindall, and on climbing these peaks found them to be the high est group yet discovered in California.
 He was undaunted as mountain climber and of remarkable endurance.
 In the autumn of 1864 King and Gardiner made a survey, geological and topographical, of the Yosemite valley for the sate of California, and during
 the winter an exploration of Arizona under the direction of General McDow- ell, In command of the department. The latter work was interrupted by the
 hostilities of the Apaches.
 While engaged in this class of work
 west of the Rocky mountains King was strongly impressed with the need of
 sciestitic survey of the country from the eastern slope of the Rockies to the Pacific. and during the winter of 1S66-67 he succeeded through his personal in- fluence and persuasive enthusiasm, In securing the necessary authority and funds from congress, he being placed in charge, under General Humphreys of the army.
 The next five years of his life was spent In the prosecution of the geolog- ical exploration of the fortieth parallel. which resulted in complete geological and topographic cross section of the whole system of the cordillera or west ern America It was a signal contribu- ton to the material of science, estab- fishing standards and methods of the highest order for the geological survey of the United States, which followed it in natural sequences. It continues to bear valuable fruit to the present day. King was the first chief of the geolog- ical survey when it was formed.
 In the course of this long series of labors in the geology of the western part of the continent, King came to the conclusion that the problem of the ac- ton of the forces that built the noun tains and the continents had not been studied with sufficient closeness. As he was freed from executive and descrip- tive work, he undertook series of lab oratory experiments to determine the action of the primal constituents of the early globe under conditions of heat and pressure assumed to exist when the material of the earth was separat- ed from the sun. The chemical and physical work required for these exper- iments was very costly, and was not entirely cOmpleteu at the tliiie ol hiHB death. He made, however a determin- alton at the age of the earth, which was accepted by the leading physicists of England and urope as the most trustworthy known. It was only part of the study of the physics of the early globe which he was engaged in, but 1t is regarded by scientists as of sub stantial value.
 MT. King travelled widely, was of va ried cultivation in letters and in art, ar alert and fascinating thinker, with @ charm wholly his own in personal in- tercourse, and a heart, the kindness of which seemed to grow with each of the countless manifesto tions of 1t. He will be deeply and tenderly mourned by numerous friends, and by none more than by the humble ones whose needs he constantly sought out in modest and unfailing ministra ton. MT. King was a member of the etropolitan and Tux edo clubs, the Yale Alumni and the Century associations, and the American Geological society. He was also a mem- Sciences. He was the author of Noun taineering in Sierra Nevada" and of various papers on systematic rgeology. r