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JOHN MASON CLARKE, who died at Albany, New J York, on May 29 last, was one of the foremost palaeontologists of America. The son of a schoolmaster at Canandaigua, New York, he was born on April 15, 1857, and received his early education in the school which his father directed. He was inclined in boyhood to the study of geology and natural history, and he proceeded in 1873 to Amherst College, Mass., where he graduated in 1877. At Amherst he came under the influence of the professor of geology, B. K. Emerson, and so entered on his life-work. He began to study in earnest the Upper Devonian rocks and fossils in the neighbourhood of his home, and while holding a succession of small teaching appointments devoted all his leisure to original research.
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W., A. Dr. John M. Clarke. Nature 116, 368 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116368a0
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