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pains to insist that its adoption would not be at variance with 

 any fundamental principle of theology. During his lifetime the 

 doctrine of creation was the prevalent fashion of thought, just as 

 now everybody is an evolutionist, and as in the Mesozoic age 

 every vertebrate animal assumed some reptilian feature. 



Prof. Hitchcock devoted much thought to the relations between 

 science and theology. He believed that his suggestions original 

 with him would tend to bring together truths often divorced, 

 but which only man puts asunder. The following are topics 

 upon which he made important suggestions : 1. Proof of the 

 general benevolence of God from geology. 2. Evidence from the 

 same, of special divine interpositions in Nature. 3. Evidence 

 from the same, of special providence. 4. Mode of answering ob- 

 jections to the doctrine of the resurrection of the body by the 

 nature of bodily identity. 5. The religious bearing of man's crea- 

 tion. 6. The adaptedness of the world for the redemptive work. 

 7. The Mosaic days properly interpreted by symbolism. These 

 and related truths were taught by him to his classes under the 

 title of natural theology. Through his efforts the chair of Geol- 

 ogy and Natural Theology was endowed in Amherst College, 

 with the understanding that the science should always be taught 

 from a religious standpoint. 



A list of Prof. Hitchcock's published writings shows a total of 

 twenty-six distinct volumes, thirty-five separate pamphlets, nine- 

 ty-four papers in periodicals, and eighty newspaper articles a 

 total of 8,453 pages, with 256 plates and 1,134 woodcuts. Half of 

 these were scientific papers ; of the others, most were religious 

 books, essays, sermons, and tracts. He published also biographies, 

 reviews, poetry, and temperance documents. 



In 1821 Mr. Hitchcock married Miss Orra White, daughter of 

 Jarib White, of Amherst, Mass., and they lived together for 

 forty-two years. Mrs. Hitchcock was an artist, and prepared 

 many of the illustrations of her husband's reports. Six of their 

 children, two sons and four daughters, reached maturity. The 

 oldest son is the Professor of Hygiene and Physical Education at 

 Amherst College ; the youngest is the Professor of Geology at 

 Dartmouth College. Three of the daughters were married the 

 first to Rev. Dr. H. M. Storrs, lately of Orange, N. J. ; the second 

 to G. B. Putnam, of the Franklin Grammar School, Boston, Mass. ; 

 the third to the late Rev. C. M. Terry, of Minneapolis, Minn. The 

 oldest daughter is known as an amateur botanist, residing at Han- 

 over, N. H. 



