Henry James Clark

Henry James Clark was an American naturalist.

Biography

He was born in Easton, Massachusetts, July 22, 1826. He graduated at New York University 1848; became a pupil of Asa Gray at the Cambridge botanical garden; graduated at the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard 1854; assistant to Louis Agassiz till 1863, and also for three years adjunct Professor of Zoology at the Lawrence Scientific School; Professor of Natural Sciences in Pennsylvania State College, near Bellefonte, 1866–69; Professor of Natural History in University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1869–72; Professor of Veterinary Science in Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, from 1872 until his death there July 1, 1873. He contributed to the Smithsonian publications, to the Proceedings of the American [Academy of Arts and Sciences], and to other learned periodicals. Author of Mind in Nature and of the Mode of Development of Animals. See A. S. Packard, Jr.'s Memoir in Biographical Memoirs of the [National Academy of Sciences].
In later life, he used the double-barrelled surname James-Clark.