Received: from fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca (fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca [128.100.43.253]) by tapehost.texas.net (8.8.8/2.4) with ESMTP id MAA19467 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 12:21:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) id NAA27067 for emweb-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:20:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca: majordom set sender to owner-emweb@mgmt.utoronto.ca using -f From: LouisFors@aol.com Message-ID: <86b3aa97.357828c4@aol.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 13:20:02 EDT To: emweb@fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: An Edward Hitchock site Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 49 Sender: owner-emweb@mgmt.utoronto.ca Precedence: list Reply-To: emweb@mgmt.utoronto.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-UIDL: 835a048b8afa9ec11c626d8164d51797 Friends: Although this is not nearly as significant as Hitchcock's Religion of Geology site, it shows another side of Edward Hitchock's work. Titled "Footprints in New England, 1858," the site shows a drawing of footprints in a stone slab in the Connecticut Valley. Hitchcock, a geologist, assumed them to have been made by a large bird. They were later designated as dinosaur tracks. (Dinosaurs were thought at that time to be quadrupedal.) Hitchock described them in a a book, "Ichnology of New England: A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, especially its Fossil Footmarks." So, if you are interested in another glimpse of this important man in the history of Amherst in EDs time go to: http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/dino/hit1858.htm Louis Forsdale