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JAMES CLARK, Justice of the United States Supreme MACROCYSTIS Court; was born in 1862, at Elkton, Ky.; graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1882, and entered the legal profession in Nashville, Tenn. In 1900 he was elected professor of law at Vanderbilt University, but continued his practice. As corporation law had become his special work he was made Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, in which position and later as Attorney-General under President Wilson he successfully prosecuted some of the great trusts for violation of the Sherman Act. President Wilson appointed him a Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court in 1914.
MACROCYSTIS (-sis'tis), a genus of Fucaceæ, family or tribe Laminaridæ.
M. pyrifera is a giant seaweed, with a stem 700 feet long, no thicker than the finger. The branches are as slender as packthreads; the leaves long and narrow, each has at its base a vesicle filled with air, enabling the plant to float. It is met with in the ocean in the S. temperate and S. polar zones.