Hubert Lyman Clark

Hubert Lyman Clark (January 9, 1870 – July 31, 1947) was an American zoologist. He received the Clarke Medal from the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1947. A son of UMass Amherst president William Smith Clark, he spent more than 40 years as a professor and curator at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.

Life and career Clark was born on January 9, 1870, in Amherst, Massachusetts, to William Smith Clark, president of Massachusetts Agricultural College, and Harriet Kapuolani (née Richards). He attended Amherst College (A.B., 1892) and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1897), where he studied with William Keith Brooks and became interested in marine biology. After graduation, he taught biology for two years at Amherst College and subsequently served as professor of biology at Olivet College in Michigan from 1899 to 1905.

In 1905, Clark joined the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University as an assistant in invertebrate zoology. In 1910 Clark became curator of echinoderms and in 1927 curator of marine invertebrates and associate professor of zoology, retiring from the classroom in 1935 and retiring as curator by August 1946. Through collecting trips to Caribbean and Australia, he grew the museum's collections of sea stars, brittle stars, sea lilies, and sea cucumbers. His publications include:

The Birds of Amherst and Vicinity (1887) The Echinoderms of Porto Rico (1901) A New Ophiuran from the West Indies (1910) North Pacific Ophiurans in the Collection of the United States National Museum (1911) The Echinoderm Fauna of Australia, Its Composition and Its Origin (1946) (recording all known species including fossils)

He also contributed to The New International Encyclopaedia and the Dictionary of American Biography.