I'm actually working on an exhibition about footprints and a text without illustration is worthless.
A quick UP of my question to see if someone somewhere would be willing to share a picture of this historical specimen?
In 2005, Emma Rainforth produced a PhD dissertation at Columbia University titles "Ichnotaxonmy of the Fossil Footprints of the Connecticut Valley (Early Jurassic, Newark Supergroup, Connecticut and Massachusetts. The 3 volume thesis is 1301 pages long, and it includes detailed descriptions and original illustrations and new photos of all of Hitchcock's fossils.The illustrations all appear in volume 2. I presently have this dissertation on loan, but there is a full digital version available online at this address:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_B5fAWPqxhwbEtFWVg5QXQ1SGc/view
For those interested in Hithcock's pioneering work on fossil tracks, the 1858 Ichnology of New England monograph is currently available as a softbound reprint from Applewood Books, Carlisle, MA (111.awb.com). It has the full text descriptions, but only a partial set of illustrations. The 1863 Supplement to the Ichnology of New England can be found as a PDF , but this includes only the text, with no illustrations. The site is:
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/EH1865textonly.pdf
Reprint versions are readily available, digital scans of an original copy, are currently available from a publisher in India, with prices that are in the $5.00 - $20 range. These are print-on-demand books, some of them include the plates as well as text. A full list can be found at AbeBooks.com, or by doing a web search for "Supplement to the Ichnology of New England".
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