Edward Hitchcock

Edward Hitchcock

Edward Hitchcock (1793–1864), U.S. geologist, botanist, and palaeontologist.

IPNI standard form: E.Hitchc.

Taxon names authored

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• 3 taxon names authored by Edward Hitchcock

Publications

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1837

• Hitchcock, E. 1837. Fossil Footsteps in Sandstone and Graywacke. American Journal of Science and Arts 32(1): 174-176. BHL Reference page. 

1844

• Hitchcock, E. 1844. Report on Ichnolithology, or Fossil Footmarks, with a Description of several New Species, and the Coprolites of Birds, from the valley of Connecticut River, and of a supposed Footmark from the valley of Hudson River. American Journal of Science and Arts 47(2): 292–321. BHL Reference page. 

1853

• Hitchcock, E. 1853. Description of a new species of Botrychium. American Journal of Science, and Arts 6: 103–104. BHL Reference page. 

1858

• Hitchcock, E. 1858. Ichnology of New England. A report on the sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, especially its fossil footmarks, made to the Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. William White, Boston: 220pp + Pl. I–LX. Internet Archive Reference page.