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Some coastal marshes south of Cape Cod: Abstract (with discussion by J. B. 

 Woodworth and A. W. Grabau). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Amer- 

 ica, volume 23, number 4, pages 742-743, December 17, 1912, 

 Peat: United States Geological Survey, mineral resources, 1912, part 2, pages 



497-501, 1913. 

 Some coastal marshes south of Cape Cod. Abstract: Science, new series, vol- 

 ume 35, page 319, February 23, 1912. 

 Peat deposit of geological interest near New Haven, Connecticut (abstract) : 

 Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, volume 24, number 4, page 

 700, December 23, 1913. 

 Origin and formation of peat: United States Bureau of Mines, Bulletin 38, 



pages 165-186, 1913. 

 Peat: United States Geological Survey, mineral resources, 1913, part 2, pages 



383-392, 1914. 

 Some historical evidence of coastal subsidence in New England (abstract with 

 discussion). Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, volume 25, num- 

 ber 1, pages 61-63, March 30, 1914. 

 Editor of and large contributor to the Journal of the American Peat Society, 

 volumes I-IX. He died just as part 2 of volume IX was going to press — 

 April 9, 1916. 

 Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, volume 26, December, 1915. 

 Discussion of algal and bacterial deposits in the Algonkian Mountains of 



Montana, page 148. 

 Discussion of glacier erosion, page 73. 



Evidence of recent subsidence on the coast of Maine, page 91. 

 Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, volume 27, March, 1916. 



Physiographic evidence of recent subsidence on the coast of Maine (ab- 

 stract), page 108. 



MEMORIAL OF EUGE]^E WOLDEMAR IIILGARD 

 BY EUGENE A. SMITH 



Eugene Woldemar^ a son of Theodore Erasmus and Margarethe Hilgard, 

 was born January 5, 1833, at Zweibrucken, in Rhenish Bavaria. His 

 father was a lawyer, holding the position of Chief Justice of the Court 

 of Appeals of the Province. In 1836, for political reasons, Judge Hil- 

 gard came to America with his family and settled on a farm at Belleville, 

 Illinois. Here Engene passed his early years, receiving instruction 

 mainly from his father and from his home library and devoting his spare 

 time to botanizing and insect collecting. At the age of 16, because of 

 failure of his eyes, he was sent to Washington, D. C, to visit his brother 

 Julius, then assistant on the United States Coast Survey. Attending 

 lectures on chemistry in the Homeopathic Medical College and the 

 Franklin Institute, he soon became lecture assistant in the foraier. In 

 1849 he returned to Germany and entered the University of Heidelberg, 



