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ninety-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 Min- 

 neapolis, Minn. The oldest daughter is known as an amateur 

 botanist, residing at Hanover, N. H. 



