Hilgard, Eugene

WALDEMAR, chemist, born in Zweibrücken, Germany, Jan. 5, 1833; was taken to America in childhood, but afterward he returned to Europe and studied at the Academy of Mines, Freiberg, Germany; also at the Universities of Zurich and Heidelberg, graduating from the latter in 1853. He returned to the U. S. (1855) and was made a istant State geologist of Mi i ippi. He held, at succe ive periods, profe orships in the State Universities of Mi i ippi, Michigan, and California; he is the author of numerous papers on geology and agriculture, and on the chemistry and physics of soils, published in The American Journal of Science, and Smithsonian Contributions to Science. His discu ion of the relations of soil and climate, prepared for the U. S. Weather Bureau (1892), has been translated into several foreign languages.