All Items 2 Collection 1 Archives & Special Collections 2 Contributor 3 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 2 Owen, Richard, 1804-1892 1 Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 1 Location 1 United States 1 Topic 6 Classification 2 Correspondence 2 Fossils 2 Career in natural history 1 Footprints, Fossil 1 Geologists 1 show more 1 show fewer Part Of 1 Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers 2 Genre 1 Correspondence 2 Subject 6 Fossils – Classification 2 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 – Correspondence 2 Footprints, Fossil 1 Geologists – United States – 19th century – Correspondence 1 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 – Career in natural history 1 Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 – Correspondence 1 show more 1 show fewer 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 Edward Hitchcock letter to Benjamin Silliman, 1840 January 12 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 A letter to Benjamin Silliman in which Edward Hitchcock discusses at length his interpretation of certain fossil footmarks and what he is planning on including in his report about them. Hitchcock also writes about a sample of petrified organic matter that he has analyzed, impressions that he believes were made by raindrops, and fossil footmarks recently discovered in England. Edward Hitchcock letter to Benjamin Silliman, 1840 January 12
