EUGENE WOLDEMAR HILGARD, A MAN OK SCIENCE 



Born at Zweibriicken, Bavaria, January 5, 1833 ; educated at Belleville, Illinois, and Heidel- 

 berg, Germany ; state geologist and professor of chemistry of the University of Mississippi, 

 1855-1873 ; professor of geology and natural history of the University of Michigan, 1873- 

 1875; professor of agriculture and director and chemist of the agricultural experiment 

 station, University of California, 1875-1906 ; chemist since 1906 ; author of " Soils " (1906) 



