Charles Henry Hitchcock

Charles Henry Hitchcock ( born August 23, 1836 in Amherst, Massachusetts, † November 5, 1919 in Honolulu, Hawaii) was an American geologist.

He was the son of the geologist Edward Hitchcock and the painter and botanist Orra White Hitchcock. He accompanied his father on the expedition to the geological survey of Vermont in the 1840s. In 1861 he was geologist in the service of the State of Maine. He published in 1862 "Report upon the Natural History and Geology of the State of Maine ." 1866-1867 he went on study trips to England, where he was especially interested in the fossils of the British Museum in London, and in Switzerland, where he examined the glacier. From 1868 to 1878 he was state geologist of New Hampshire and took before its geological surveying. He published his findings in "The Geology of New Hampshire " ( 1874-1878 ). In addition, he published the first geological Atlas of New Hampshire out ( "Atlas to Accompany the Geology of New Hampshire ," 1878).

Hitchcock was in 1868 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, professor of geology and mineralogy. A post he held until 1908. Among his students, he was nicknamed "type", as he had described numerous rock formations of New Hampshire and their "type localities " and lectured extensively about it. In addition to geology, he dealt with meteorology, paleontology and Volcanology and made substantial contributions here.