Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Clarence King (1842-1901) was an American geologist With William Brewer and Josiah Whitney, member of the California Geological Survey. First director of the USGS (1879-1881) First ascent of Mount Tyndall, mistakenly thinking it was the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada. Reference Clarence King: A Biography by Thurman Wilkins, Caroline Lawson Hinkley, University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 0826310850 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.