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Full Issue: vol. 64, issue 2

The Medicine Forum, 2010

Abstract

Edward Hitchcock, an American geologist teaching at Amherst College in Massachusetts, discovered the fi rst dinosaur footprints in the Connecticut River valley in 1836.As dinosaurs were poorly understood creatures at that time, he thought they were the tracks of large birds, and he collected quite a few slabs for his museum at Amherst.This view shows the Moody Footmark Quarry in South Hadley, as it appeared in a lithograph in his book, Ichnology of New England (Boston, 1858;

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