All Items 3 Collection 2 Archives & Special Collections 3 Emily Dickinson Collection 1 Contributor 3 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 2 Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 2 Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 1 Location 1 Massachusetts 1 Topic 8 Correspondence 2 American poetry 1 Career in natural history 1 Classification 1 Footprints, Fossil 1 Fossils 1 Natural history collections 1 Women poets, American 1 show more 3 show fewer Part Of 2 Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers 2 Emily Dickinson Collection 1 Genre 2 Correspondence 2 Poems 1 mods.shelfLocator 1 Box 3 Folder 30 3 Richard Owen letter to Edward Hitchcock, 1844 August 30 Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 A letter from Richard Owen to Edward Hitchcock regarding large birds' nests seen in New Zealand or Australia by global circumnavigators Cook and Hinders. Owen mentions "The Birds of Australia" by John Gould and Hitchcock's work with footprint fossils. Richard Owen letter to Edward Hitchcock, 1844 August 30 Richard Owen letter to Edward Hitchcock, 1860 December 21 Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 A letter from Richard Owen, English paleontologist, to Edward Hitchcock thanking him for sending him a rare fossil, including remains of a "Saurian Reptile." Owen speculates on the anatomy and development of the animal. Richard Owen letter to Edward Hitchcock, 1860 December 21 From his slim palace in the dust Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 From his slim palace in the dust
