In Memoriam. Eugene Woldemar Hilgard ...University of California Press, 1916 - 50 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 16 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
الصفحة 5 - His father was a lawyer, holding the position of chief justice of the court of appeals of the province.
الصفحة 31 - Louis, membership in several scientific societies, among them the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in which he was made a life member just before his death.
الصفحة 32 - ... State Geologist In 1855 the position of assistant geologist of Mississippi was offered to Eugene W. Hilgard, then just returned from a European university (Heidelberg) and thus began the career of the most distinguished worker in Gulf Coastal Plain Geology. It is worth recording that Doctor Hilgard accepted this position amid the sincere condolences of his scientific friends on his assignment to so uninteresting a field, where the Paleozoic formations (then occupying almost exclusively the minds...
الصفحة 32 - It having become clearly apparent to me by this time that the survey would never maintain itself in public esteem on the basis of mineral discoveries, and that it must seek its main support in what services it might render to agriculture, I made a point of paying close attention to and recording the surface features,!
الصفحة 20 - ... continuance of activities already begun. Without the consideration that it qualifies the medium and not the man, we might see some pathetic shadow in this memorial comment, across its else unstinted praise: "Gauged by the time and opportunity, Hilgard's will remain a great work. The results of his labors are in the warp of California's first half-century of intellectual and industrial life, and upon such enduring work as he achieved will be spread the splendid fabric o'f the coming advancement...
الصفحة 32 - I perceived was essential toward the characterization of soils. In the prosecution of these studies, the close connection between the surface vegetation and the underlying formations became so striking, that...
الصفحة 7 - Wickson, started with: ... a thorough course in fruit growing in the Garden of Eden, passing spiritedly to grain growing in Egypt and the conditions surrounding the corner in sorghum which Joseph contrived for Ramses II, pausing to look carefully into the dairy practices of the Scythians, and was rapidly approaching the relatively modern cabbage growing of Cincinnatus when, as tradition declares, both instructor and pupils fell asleep (Stadtman, 1970, pp.
الصفحة 19 - It was a force in engrafting original research upon the instructional work, established through the educational land-grant law of Morrill, by the enactment of the Hatch law for experiment stations in all states; and when those institutions were being developed in the latter '80 's Hilgard and the research establishment which he had created in California were the accepted prototypes of men, means and methods.
الصفحة 33 - In 1867, under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, and in 1869, under the auspices of the New Orleans Academy of Sciences, opportunity was given to Doctor Hilgard to extend his researches down the Mississippi River to the passes and through Louisiana in a thirty-day reconnaissance trip. In these excursions the post-Pliocene age of the Port Hudson "stump stratum...