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Edward Hitchcock
United States geologist and Congregationalist clergyman (1793-1864)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 24 May 1793, 1793
- Died
- 27 February 1864, 1864
- Place of birth
- Deerfield
- Place of death
- Amherst
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Edward
- Family name
- Hitchcock
- Spouse
- Orra White Hitchcock
- Field of work
- botany
- Occupation
- botanist, paleontologist, geologist, mycologist, writer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Religion
- Protestantism
- archives at
- Amherst College
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Encyclopedia Americana
- educated at
- Yale University, Deerfield Academy, Middlebury College
- employer
- Amherst College
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- place of burial
- Amherst West Cemetery
- writing language
- English
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- Report on the geology, mineralogy, botany, and zoology of Massachusetts
- Reminiscences of Amherst College, historical, scientific, biographical and autobiographical; also, of other and wider life experiences
- Final report on the geology of Massachusetts
- A catalogue of plants growing without cultivation in the vicinity of Amherst College
- Catalogues of the animals and plants of Massachusetts : with a copious index
- Elementary anatomy and physiology : for colleges, academies, and other schools
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