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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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