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Professor Hitchcock removed in 1908, when he had completed forty 

 years in the service of New Hampshire and Dartmouth College, to Hono- 

 lulu, the principal city of the tropical Hawaiian Islands, to which he had 

 previously made several visits. Here his last eleven years were passed, 

 excepting occasional returns in summers to the United States. His 

 latest extended geologic work was published there in 1909, a very inter- 

 esting book of 314 pages, with more than fifty plate illustrations, entitled 

 "Hawaii and its Volcanoes." "The object of this work,'' as noted in its 

 preface, "is to describe correctly the phenomena connected with the dis- 

 charges of molten lava from the two great Hawaiian volcanoes, Kilauea 

 and Mauna Loa. The greater part of the text presents the statements 

 of visitors to their borders, descriptive of w^hat they saw, set forth in 

 chronological order." 



In June, 1862, he married Martha Bliss Barrows, daughter of Prof. 

 E. P. Barrows, of Andover, Massachusetts. To this union two sons 

 and three daughters were born, of whom the first, Arthur Charles, died 

 in infancy, and the second son, Edward White, died at the age of nearly 

 six years. Maria Porter, the eldest daughter, married to Frederick Allen, 

 has died. The first wife of Professor Hitchcock died in February, 1892, 

 and he married her sister, Charlotte Malvina Barrows, in September, 

 1894, who resides, with the two surviving daughters, Martha Barrows 

 and AUeine Lee, in Honolulu. 



Honored, revered, beloved friend, with whom I have had intimate asso^ 

 ciation through fifty years, first under your teaching at Dartmouth and 

 later as your assistant in the survey of my native State, I have now to 

 say, gratefully, Farewell! Your life, devoted to science, education, and 

 Christian service of the State, the college, and the wide world, has been 

 an inspiration, a beneficent guidance and example, to your hundreds of 

 students and to all workers in geology. 



The following list of Professor Hitchcock's publications was com- 

 piled by himself, up to the year 1907, for his successor, Prof. J. AV. 

 Goldthwait, and for the libraries of Dartmouth and Amherst Colleges: 



Bibliography 



1855. Extra-Terrestrial excursions. Amherst Collegiate Magazine, 4 pages. 

 Impressions (chiefly tracks) on clay. American Journal of Science, 



series 2, volume XIX, 6 pages. 

 1857. Fractured ledges of slate in Vermont. Proceedings of the American 



Association for the Advancement of Science, Montreal meeting, 5 



pages. 



