"IT is a life that develops weird types," Clarence King once said of his work as a mountaineer geologist in the mid-19th century.

In 1863 he traveled on horseback to California with his boyhood friend, Clarence King.

Nor will Clarence King, the Town Assessor, remove the taxes pending the appeal.

"Did you meet Clarence King this summer in Paris?"

Although Clarence King was dying, he was determined to go in a great display of mind and wit and energy.

After all, he was a mere dude compared to Clarence King.

Frederika looked about the room as if she were in New York's legendary lion house, where Clarence King had seen fit to go mad.

Cotter and Clarence King made the first ascent of Mount Tyndall.

When Clarence King joined the California Geological Survey in 1863, there was still much to be learned about the young country.

Clarence King called Cotter "our man-of-all-work, to whom science already owes its debts".