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than that of learning from books; and he was associated with his father in 

 all his geological work from the time when he was first old enough to be of 

 service. Thus, before 1856 he was acquainted, from inspection, with the ter- 

 races and reputed beaches and drift phenomena of all western Massachusetts ; 

 he had handled every specimen of a footmark in the Appleton Cabinet, and by 

 1861 was the principal assistant on the Vermont Survey, having prepared for 

 the press the greater part of the matter of the report. He had enjoyed the 

 best educational advantages of his day, having completed the classical and 

 preparatory courses of Williston Seminary and been graduated thence in 1852, 

 then graduated from Amherst College in 1856, a short time before his twen- 

 tieth birthday." 



The life work of Edward Hitchcock was begun in the Christian min- 

 istry, as a Congregational pastor, before he heard and obeyed other calls 

 to duty as a geologist and leader in education. With like inclinations 

 his son Charles, next after the college course, took up theological studies 

 during a year at Yale and two years in the Andover Seminary, looking 

 forward to be a pastor; but the lure of geologic field-work, which he 

 began in the summer of 1857, on the survey of Vermont, changed his 

 plans for life to investigations and teaching in geology. 



Charles was an assistant geologist of Vermont four years, under direc- 

 tion of his father, the State Geologist, to the close of the survey. For its 

 report, published as two volumes and comprising nearly 1,000 pages, he 

 had charge of the parts relating to the stratigraphic geology, the glacial 

 and modified drift, the measurement and delineation of thirteen sections 

 crossing the State from east to west, and the compilation of the geological 

 map. 



In 1861 he was appointed State Geologist of Maine, in which service he 

 spent two summers in field-work and prepared two reports of progress, 

 published in connection with the report of the secretary of the Board of 

 Agriculture. This survey included a general reconnaissance of Maine, 

 with discovery of large areas of Upper Silurian and Devonian formations. 



For Amherst College he was curator of the museum and lecturer on 

 zoology from 1858 to 1865, and for Lafayette College was non-resident 

 professor of geology and mineralogy from 1866 to 1870. 



During a year in 1866-7 he studied at the Eoyal School of Mines. 

 London, made researches of the Crustacea and trilobites in the British 

 Museum, and visited Switzerland for examination of its glaciers. 



In 1868 he received appointments as State Geologist of Few Hampshire 

 and Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in Dartmouth College. This 

 State survey occupied ten years, with publication of three quarto volumes 

 and an atlas. His active professorship at Dartmouth continued forty 

 years, to 1908, and later was extended through his life by the title of pro- 

 fessor emeritus. 



