S36 DANIEL COIT OILMAN. 



Mining Engineers, entitled "Secondary Enrichment of Ore Deposits" 

 in which for the first time attention was drawn to the rich sulphides 

 just below the water level which owe their origin to the descending 

 surface waters, Emmons' contributions to geological literature were 

 contained in nearly 100 monographs, reports and papers. 



Emmons' name, as a mining geologist, is known all over the world. 

 Thoroughness, efficiency and good judgment characterized his work 

 throughout. His kindly and unselfish personality endeared him to all 

 who had the privilege of his acquaintance and he was a potent influence 

 in the work of younger geologists in the organization in which he for 

 many years directed the investigations in mining geology. 



WaLDEMAR LlNDGREN. 



DANIEL COIT OILMAN (1831-1908) 



FeUow of Class III, Section 2, 1875. 



Daniel Coit Oilman was born July 6, 1831, at Norwich, Connecti- 

 cut, and died in the town of his birth, October 13, 1908. He was the 

 son of William Charles Oilman (1795-1863) and his wife, Eliza Coit 

 (1796-1868), and connected with many of the best-known families 

 immigrant from England to New England in the seventeenth century.^ 

 The facts of his life are briefly and admirably told by his brother, 

 William Charles Oilman, in the Johns Hopkins University Circular 

 for December, 1908; and more fully in The Life of Daniel Coit Oilman 

 by Fabian Franklin, New York, 1910. But nowhere, now that he is 

 gone, can one get a better idea of his character and personality than 

 from his own public addresses, especially the collection made by him, 

 and published at New York in 1906 under the title, The Launching 

 of a University, and other "papers: a sheaf of remembrances. 



Mr. Oilman received the bachelor's degree at Yale in 1852 and spent 

 the following year there as a resident graduate. "On the whole," 

 he says, "I think that the year was wasted." And his experience at 

 Harvard in the autumn of 1853 was similar. So far as his then 



1 See The Gilman Family, by Arthur Oilman, Albany, N. Y., 1869; The 

 Coit Family, by F. W. Chapman, Hartford, Conn., 1874. 



