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Cover/
TitlePage
Hitchcock portrait
Page iv
Frontispiece Tracks
Page viii
Marble bust
Page 9
Section I Deerfield
Page 10
Figure 1 Map of Massachusetts
Page 11
Chapter 1 Pocumtuck
Page 17
Figure 2 Hitchcock house
Page 19
Chapter 2 Sugarloaf Mountain
Page 22
Figure 3 Winter in Deerfield
Page 24
Figure 4 George Washington
Page 26
Figure 5 Jonathan Edwards
Page 27
Figure 6 George Sheldon
Page 29
Chapter 3 Deerfield Academy
Page 31
Figure 7
Map of Deerfield
Page 37
Chapter 4
Comer of 1811
Page 39
Figure 8
Epaphras Hoyt
Page 41
Figure 9
Country Almanack
Page 44
Figure 10
Astronomical charts
Page 47
Figure 11 Edmund M. Blunt
Page 49
Chapter 5
Josephine and Napoleon
Page 59
Chapter 6
Yale College
Page 63
Figure 12
Titan's Piazza
Page 67
Figure 13
Benjamin Silliman
Page 73
Section II
Conway
Page 75
Chapter 7
Conway farm
Page 78
Figure 14
Hitchcock ordination
Page 79
Figure 15
Map of Conway
Page 81
Figure 16 Hydnum imbricatum
Page 85
Figure 17aa
Fungi, Selecti Picti, cover
Page 85
Figure 17ba
Fungi, Selecti Picti, page
Page 87
Chapter 8
Camp meeting
Page 91
Figure 18
Botrychium simplex
Page 97
Figure 19
Utility of Natural History
Page 99
Figure 20
Diluvial Hillocks
Page 101
Figure 21
State of Church & People of Conway
Page 103
Chapter 9
Burial Hill
Page 106
Figure 22
Carex hitchcockiana
Page 109
Figure 23
Hymn
Page 110
Figure 24
Little Edward's grave
Page 111
Chapter 10
Chemistry laboratory
Page 115
Figure 25
Small apparatus of a laboratory
Page 118
Figure 26
Simple and common blow pipes
Page 121
Section III
Phoenix Row, Amherst, 1840
Page 123
Chapter 11
Amherst Common
Page 130
Figure 27
Map of Amherst, 1833
Page 133
Chapter 12
Hitchcock home in Amherst, 1905
Page 135
Figure 28
Zephaniah Swift Moore
Page 139
Figure 29
Lecture notes on Geology
Page 141
Figure 30
Posters by Orra White Hitchcock
Page 145
Chapter 13
View of Amherst, 1835
Page 148
Figure 31
Dyspepsy Forestalled and Resisted
Page 151
Figure 32
Mineralogy advertisement, 1817
Page 154
Figure 33
Rocking Stone: Fall River
Page 155
Chapter 14
Cape Ann
Page 158
Figure 34a
Maps of Hitchcock's geological surveys
Page 159
Figure 34b
Maps of Hitchcock's geological surveys
Page 162
Figure 35
Geological map of Massachusetts, 1833
Page 165
Figure 36
Hitchcock's geological survey notes
Page 167
Figure 37
Confluence of Deerfield and Conn Rivers
Page 173
Figure 38
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
Page 176
Figure 39
Gay Head
Page 177
Chapter 15 "The Return," 1839
Page 180
Figure 40
Hitchcock account book
Page 183
Figure 41
Fossilized fern
Page 184
Figure 42
Bashapish Falls
Page 188
Figure 43
Map of Locations of Fossil Footmarks
Page 189
Chapter 16 View of Moody footmark quarry
Page 191
Figure 44
Dr. James Deane (1801-1858)
Page 193
Figure 45
Red sandstone slabs with tracks
Page 194
Figure 46
Taxonomy of fossil footmarks, 1836
Page 201
Chapter 17 Amherst College, 1821
Page 203
Figure 47
Rev. Heman Humphrey (1779-1861)
Page 204
Figure 48
"Whole Hog Abolitionist"
Page 209
Figure 49
Samuel Williston
Page 211
Section IV
The President's House, Amherst College
Page 213
Chapter 18
North-western view of Amherst College, 1839
Page 220
Figure 50a
Edward Hitchcock
Page 221
Figure 50b
Orra White Hitchcock
Page 223
Chapter 19 View from Mount Holyoke
Page 229
Figure 51
Map of Mountain Excursions
Page 235
Figure 52
"The Inseparable Trio"
Page 236
Figure 53
Diluvial grooves in gneiss, 1833
Page 237
Chapter 20
Woods Cabinet and Observatory
Page 240
Figure 54
Lawrence Observatory
Page 241
Figure 55
Charles U. Shepard Collections
Page 245
Figure 56
Cascade in Leverett
Page 247
Chapter 21
Steamer Liverpool
Page 251
Figure 57
Map of Hitchcocks' European Tour
Page 259
Chapter 22
American railroad
Page 263
Figure 58
New library at Amherst College
Page 266
Figure 59
Cover of Religion of Geology, 1859
Page 271
Figure 60
Hitchcock testimonials
Page 275
Figure 61
Assyrian relief
Page 279
Section V
Appleton Cabinet, 1858
Page 281
Chapter 23
Interior of Ichnological Cabinet, 1858
Page 288
Figure 62a
Fern fossil
Page 288
Figure 62b
Shell fossil
Page 294
Figure 63
Sandstone slabs with tracks
Page 295
Chapter 24
Sleigh ride
Page 303
Figure 64
Turner's Falls lithograph
Page 307
Figure 65
Microscope drawings
Page 310
Figure 66
Interior of Appleton Cabinet
Page 315
Chapter 25
Orra White Hitchcock portrait
Page 320
Figure 67
Rev. William A. Stearns (1810-1884)
Page 321
Figure 68
Megatherium
Page 322
Figure 69
Dr. Edward Hitchcock, Jr.
Page 323
Figure 70
Charles H. Hitchcock
Page 326
Figure 71
Map of Amherst College, 1860
Page 328
Figure 72
Rev. William S. Tyler (1810-1897)
Page 329
Chapter 26
Portrait of Edward Hitchcock, 1863
Page 335
Figure 73
View of Amherst College, 1859-60
Page 337
Figure 74
Advertisement for Reminiscences
Page 339
Chapter 27
Amherst's third meetinghouse
Page 346
Figure 75
Emily Hitchcock Terry
Page 347
Figure 76
Hitchcock monument, West Cemetery
Page 351
Chapter 28
Sandstone slab with tracks
Page 357
Figure 77
Archaeopteryx
Page 359
Figure 78
Tracks of Anomoepus
Page 361
Chapter 29
Palaeontological Chart
Page 365
Figure 79a
Origin of Species
Page 365
Figure 79b
Charles Darwin
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