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HITCHCOCK . See also:EDWARD (7793–1864), See also:American geologist, was See also:born of poor parents at See also:Deerfield, See also:Massachusetts, on the 24th of May 1793. He owed his See also:education chiefly to his own
exertions, and was preparing himself to enter Harvard See also:College when he was compelled to interrupt his studies from a weakness in his eyesight. In 1815 he became See also:principal of the See also:academy of his native See also:town; but he resigned this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in 1818 in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to study for the See also:ministry. Having been ordained in 1821 pastor of the Congregational See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of See also:Conway, See also:Mass., he employed his leisure 'in making a scientific survey of the western counties of the See also:state. From 1825 to 1845 he was See also:professor of See also:chemistry and natural See also:history, from 1845 to 1864 was professor of natural See also:theology and See also:geology at See also:Amherst College, and from 1845 to 1854 was See also:president; the college owed its See also:early success largely to his energetic efforts, especially during the See also:period of his See also:presidency. In 183o he was appointed state geologist of Massachusetts, and in 1836 was made geologist of the first See also:district of the state of New See also:York. In 1840 he received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard, and in 1846 that of D.D. from See also:Middlebury College, See also:Vermont. Besides his See also:constant labours in geology, See also:zoology and See also:botany, Hitchcock took an active See also:interest in See also:agriculture, and in 185o he was sent by the Massachusetts legislature to examine into the methods of the agricultural See also:schools of See also:Europe. In geology he made a detailed examination and exposition of the fossil footprints from the Triassic sandstones of the See also:Connecticut valley. His collection is preserved in the Hitchcock Ichnological Museum of Amherst College, and a description of it was published in 1858 in his See also:report to the Massachusetts legislature on the ichnology of New See also:England. The footprints were regarded as those of See also:reptiles, amphibiaand birds (?). In 1857 he undertook, with the aid of his two sons, the See also:geological survey of Vermont, which was completed in 1861. As a writer on geological See also:science, Hitchcock was largely concerned in determining the connexion between it and See also:religion, and employing its results to explain and support what he regarded as the truths of See also:revelation. He died at Amherst, on the 27th of See also:February 1864.
His son,. See also:CHARLES See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
HENRY HITCHCOCK (1836– ), did See also:good service in geology, in Vermont, New See also:Hampshire (1868–1878), and other parts of See also:America, and became professor of geology at Dart-mouth in 1868.
The following are Edward Hitchcock's principal See also:works: Geology of the Connecticut Valley (1823); See also:Catalogue of See also:Plants growing without cultivation in the vicinity of Amherst (1829); Reports on the Geology of Massachusetts (1833—1841); Elementary Geology (1840; ed. 2, 1841; and later ed. with C. H. Hitchcock, 1862) ; Fossil Footmarks in the See also:United States (1848); Outline of the Geology of the Globe and of the United States in particular (1853): Illustrations of See also:Surface Geology (1856) ; Ichnology of New England (1858) ; The Religion of Geology and its Connected Sciences (1851; new ed., 1869) ; Reminiscences of Amherst College (1863); and various papers in the American See also:Journal of Science, and other See also:periodicals.
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