MEMORIAL EDITORIAL 



ROLLIN D. SALISBURY 



August 17, 1858 — August 15, 1922 



It is with deep sorrow that the Journal of Geology records the 

 death of its active managing editor, Dean RolHn D. SaHsbury. 

 After a severe illness of two and a half months, he passed away 

 on the evening of August 15, within two days of his sixty-fourth 

 birthday. For the past four years he had been the responsible 

 editor of the Journal, while from its founding in January, 1893, 

 he |)articipated actively in the general responsibilities of its editorial 

 management and had special charge of contributions relating to 

 the physiographic aspects of geology. This special service in the 

 dissemination of the literature of the science of the earth thus ran 

 through a period of almost thirty years. The more than 1,300 

 standard articles, 2,500 abstracts and reviews, 150 editorials and 

 shorter notices, embracing more than 24,000 pages of printed 

 matter, which received all phases of editorial care from the reading 

 of manuscript to the approval of the final proof, attest at once 

 the importance and the burden of this work. Professor Salisbury 

 himself prepared 82 contributions. 



The scientific investigations of Dr. SaHsbury will be reviewed 

 in a later article more fully than is possible here. His field work was 

 begun under the auspices of the United States Geological Survey as 

 early as 1881 and continued until 1910. It embraced extensive 

 studies on the glacial and other Pleistocene formations of the north- 

 ern states and the lower Mississippi Valley. In connection with 

 this, he made a report on Crowley's Ridge to the Geological Survey 

 of Arkansas. From 1891 to 1910 he was geologist in charge of 

 the Pleistocene Division of the Geological Survey of New Jersey, 

 where his work on the older drift and on fluvial deposits formed 

 near the neutral zone between marine and upland horizons was 

 notable for its keen insight and acute discrimination. He made 

 important contributions to the Geological Survey of lUinois and 



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