EDITORIAL FOREWORD 



The publication of this memoir on the geology of Cape Cod and the New 

 England islands would have been a source of great satisfaction to Prof. Wood- 

 worth had he lived. It is a summation of the results of long continued study by 

 him, which was begun many years ago in association with Prof. Nathaniel S. 

 Shaler. In a letter to the junior author at the time he received the request from 

 the United States Geological Survey to write the report, Prof. Woodworth stated, 

 "The long awaited and oft expected has occurred," and suggested the glacial 

 geology of Marthas Vineyard as the subject for a doctor's thesis which could 

 later be revised as part of the report. The present volume is a fitting memorial to 

 Prof. Woodworth in that it is the culmination of his work in one of the lines of 

 study in which he was most interested. 



The field work and preparation of the manuscript was originally done for 

 the Section of Coastal Plain Investigations, U. S. Geological Survey, T. W. 

 Vaughan, Geologist in charge. Early in 1920 the manuscript was transferred to 

 the Section of Glacial Geology, Wm. C. Alden, Geologist in charge, by whom it 

 was revised, and preparation for publication was begun. For various reasons, 

 which need not be detailed here, preparation for publication was not completed 

 when Prof. Woodworth died, August 4, 1925. 



In 1926, Mr. Samuel Henshaw, Director of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology and a long time friend of Prof. Woodworth, suggested to me that he 

 would be glad to publish the report, in memory of Prof. Woodworth, as one of the 

 Museum's memoirs, and a proposal was made to the Director of the Federal Sur- 

 vey. Permission to do this was granted by the Director, Mr. George Otis Smith, 

 and the manuscript was turned over to Mr. Henshaw, with the assurance of 

 assistance by the Survey in further preparation. Work on editing and preparation 

 of the plates was commenced at once, but again was not completed at the time of 

 Mr. Henshaw's resignation as director of the Museum. After some delay, owing 

 largely to the fact that certain funds expected for publication were no longer 

 available, the present Director of the Museum, Dr. Thomas Barbour, arranged 

 to have the manuscript reduced in volume and to be further edited by the late 

 George M. Wood, retired editor of the Federal Survey. To the services of Mr. 

 Wood is due in large measure the excellence of the text of the memoir as now is- 



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