Comments on: Edward Hitchcock’s Poetic Words http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2009/01/21/edward-hitchcock%e2%80%99s-poetic-words/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:15:04 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David Williams http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2009/01/21/edward-hitchcock%e2%80%99s-poetic-words/comment-page-1/#comment-281 David Williams Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:36:47 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=718#comment-281 Great posting about Hitchcock. He was quite an interesting character. One of my favorite stories about him was when he found some tracks in a sidewalk in Manhattan. Apparently after he made a cast of them, the local police wanted to take him in. He was saved by a former student, who testified that Hitchcock was “no more deranged than such men usually are.” He eventually accumulated the world’s largest collection of what we now know as dinosaur tracks. It is at the Amherst College Museum. If you are interested in more about Hitchcock, his tracks, and that blood-red sandstone (better known to the world as brownstone), I have a chapter about him in my upcoming book, Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology. Great posting about Hitchcock. He was quite an interesting character. One of my favorite stories about him was when he found some tracks in a sidewalk in Manhattan. Apparently after he made a cast of them, the local police wanted to take him in. He was saved by a former student, who testified that Hitchcock was “no more deranged than such men usually are.”

He eventually accumulated the world’s largest collection of what we now know as dinosaur tracks. It is at the Amherst College Museum. If you are interested in more about Hitchcock, his tracks, and that blood-red sandstone (better known to the world as brownstone), I have a chapter about him in my upcoming book, Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology.

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