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in 1861. I cannot even tell you, in the few minutes that I 
feel are all I have to spare, how greatly we owe to his 
enlightened exertions that movement of the public mind 
which about forty years ago produced the early State sur- 
veys; nor how much to him should be ascribed the merit of 
originating, or rather pressing to concreteness, the abstract 
conception of the desirableness to science in America of some 
closer personal association of its votaries. To him, more 
than perhaps to any other man, is due the title of founder of 
the association of American geologists and naturalists which 
afterwards assumed the name of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science, which will hold its next 
meeting next week at Buffalo. 
Neither can I describe Dr. Hitchcock as a teacher. His 
Elementary Geology, first published in 1840, reached its 
thirty-first edition in 1860, and was then rewritten to ex- 
press the progress which the teacher himself had made. His 
Geology of the Globe was published in 1853. 
Shall I allude to his scientific monuments at Amherst? I 
need only say to such of you as have not yet beheld them, 
Go and see what one man can accomplish! All honor to 
his fellow-workmen there! But what Amherst is, Hitchcock 
has made it, —so says all the world, and what all the world 
says must be true. He was the master-mind at that centre. 
Let Amherst erect a statue to him in front of his Museum, 
—a statue of pure, white Vermont marble, for he was an 
American Christian, —a statue lifted high upon a cubical 
plinth of Quincy granite, for he was a simple-hearted son of 
) usetts, —a statue facing Holyoke, for the oblique de- 
nudation of its summit, he discovered, and the marvellous 
beauties of its panorama were his heart's delight. America 
has reached the time when it needs the idolatry of hero- 
worship to counteract its excessive tendency to individual- 
