Earth systems (hydrosphere, atmosphere, pedosphere, in the main types of rocks, etc.) are called in Russian "the Clarkes" ("кларки"). Inaugural chairman of the International Committee of Atomic Weights In 1903, the only American (and Unitarian) ever invited to deliver a Memorial Address before The Chemical Society. Sample Publications Scientific USGS Water Supply Paper No.364 Water analyses from the laboratory of the United States Geological Survey, 1914; Analysis of rocks and minerals from the laboratory of the United States Geological Survey, 1880 to 1908, USGS Bulletin No. 419 (1910); Contributions to mineralogy from the United States Geological Survey, USGS Bulletin No. 262 (1905); Report of work done in the division of chemistry and physics mainly during the fiscal year 1884-85, USGS Bulletin No. 27 (1886); "Evolution and the Spectroscope," Popular Science Monthly (1873); "On a new process in mineral analysis; Contributions to Chemistry from the Laboratory of the Lawrence Scientific School," 45 Am. Jour. Sci. 173-80 (1868). General "The Obituary of an Undertaker," Life Magazine; "The Mormon Widow's Lament, The Galaxy; "American colleges versus American science," 9 Pop. Sci. Monthly 467 (Aug. 1876); "The higher education," 7 Pop. Sci. Monthly 402 (Aug. 1875); "How to Play Solitaire, Riverside Magazine (Feb. 1870); Views around Ithaca, New York; Being a description of the waterfalls and ravines of this remarkable locality (1869). "Weights, measures, and money, of all nations", (1875) Online version Member The American Association for the Advancement of Science (Section Q); American Chemical Society; Young Men's Christian Union; The Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C.; the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at Cornell and the Irving Literary Society. In 1896, he served as President of the Philosophical Society of Washington. In 1904, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. References External links 1847 births 1931 deaths Cornell University faculty American geochemists United States Geological Survey personnel Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Rare earth scientists Members of the American Philosophical Society