Book excerpt: Excerpt from Biographical Memoir of Arnold Hague, 1840-1917 At the end of his second year in Germany he again applied to enter the army service, saying he was entirely well and strong and felt an obligation to return. In reply he received a personal message from President Lincoln, saying in effect: Stay where you are; we shall need such as you later. In the spring of 1865 he went to the Bergakademie, in Freiberg, Sax. Ony, where he met S. F. Emmons for the first time, who had been there the previous year. This was the beginning of an other friendship which was to continue throughout life and was to influence the careers of both these embryo geologists who were within four months of the same age. Emmons, hav ing had a year's experience at the Bergakademie, became the adviser of Hague as to his best course and joined him in all the week-end excursions with von Cotta. They visited many parts of Saxony and studied petrology according to von Cotta's text-book. Their evenings were often spent studying the geo logical map of Saxony and in acquiring their first experience in geological cartography. In a reference to this experience Hague has said: Both came to realize the influence of Cotta upon our future careers, as he gave us much of his time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.