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AEl^OLD HAGUE. 



Arnold Hague, the able geologist and a man of rare per- 

 sonal gifts, was born in Boston Decenaber 3, 1840, and died 

 at his home in Washington May 14, 1917. The immediate 

 cause of his death was cerebral hemorrhage and was undoubt- 

 edly hastened by his recent fall in Albany while attending a 

 meeting of the Geological Society of America. For neai'ly 

 fifty years he was prominent in the geological affairs of the 

 country. His parents, the Rev. Dr. William Hague, a noted 

 clergyman and writer, and Mary Bowditch (Moriarty) Hague, 

 lived in Boston during his youth. There his education began 

 but later he attended the Albany Academy. 



James D. Hague, his elder brother, studied mining engi- 

 neering at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard, and 

 Arnold may have acquired from him his taste for geology. 

 At the Sheiheld Scientific School of Yale where Arnold Hague 

 graduated (Ph.B.) in 1863 he met as classmate Clarence King, 

 who had much to do with his career. Three years in succes- 

 sion Hague studied in Europe at the Universities of Gottingen 

 and Heidelberg, and the Freiberg School of Mines. While in 

 Bunsen's laboratory he devoted himself chiefly to chemistrj^ 

 and mineralogy. The spring of 1865 found him in Freiberg, 

 where he met S. F. Emmons. They were especially congenial, 

 and with the same bent they soon became and continued 

 through life devoted friends and colleagues. Hague in his 

 excellent memoir of Emmons tells much of himself. Indeed, 

 much of that loving tribute to his friend reads like an auto- 

 biography. He writes " I was always ready to lay aside metal- 

 lurgical studies for field geology. Together we took all the 

 week-end excursions with dear old Bernhard von Cotta, visit- 

 ing many parts of Saxony and studying petrology as laid down 

 in that now antiquated text-book, Cotta's ' Die Gesteinlehre ' 

 (Zweite Auflage, 1862). Many an evening Emmons and I 

 spent together over the map of Saxony, acquiring our initiative 

 experience in geological cartography which later stood us in 

 good service. Both came to realize the influence of Cotta 

 upon our future careers, as he gave us much of his time. In 

 this way, during these few months of German student life, was 

 formed a friendship that always endui-ed." 



Hague returned to his home in Boston in December, 1866, 

 and soon received from his friend, Clarence King, an offer to 

 join in the Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel which 

 King was just succeeding in carrying through Congress with- 

 out the customary delay. Hague lost no time in bringing 

 Emmons to the attention of King, who secured him, at flrst as 



