Hubert Clark Succumbs at Hospital Here

Hubert Lyman Clark, associate professor of Zoology, emeritus, and for 42 years associated with the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology, died at 3 o'clock yesterday morning at the Mt. Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, after a month-long illness.

Known for extensive marine research in Jamaica, Tobago, Bermuda, the Galapagos Islands, and Australia, Clark was the recent recipient of the Clarke Memorial Medal for 1946, described as one of Australia's leading scientific honors, for his zoological research in that country.

Follows Agassiz

In continuing the work of Alexander Agassiz, Clark, who died at the age of 77, is credited with putting the Museum here "among the largest and best organized in the world" because of his additions to the collection of sea stars, brittle stars, sea lilies, and sea cucumbers.

After graduating from Amherst, receiving a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins, and teaching at Amherst and Olivet, Clark came to Harvard in 1904 to work with Agassiz as assistant in Invertebrate Zoology at the Museum. In 1911, he became curator of Echindorms and, in 1928, was named curator of Marine Invertebrates, a post which he held until July 1, 1946.

Taught Here Eight Years

His teaching here consisted of an eight-year term--from 1928 to 1935--as associate professor of Zoology in the Biology Department. He also taught for a year each at Williams and Stanford.

His scholarly achievements were recognized by Olivet College, Michigan, which awarded him an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1927. But he was an ardent field worker and it is reported that he was "never happier than when he was collecting in the tropics."

Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at First Church (Congregational), Cambridge, with Rev. John Leamon reading the service.