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received from Edinburgh university the degree of S.T.D. in 1768. He published: An Examination of the Late Rev. Pres. Edwards" s Enquu-y on Freedom of U7ZZ (1770); and Sermons to Young People (1806). He died in New Haven, Conn., Aug. 18, 1812.

DANA, James Dwight, geologist, was born in Utica, N.Y., Feb. 12, 1813; son of James and Harriet (Dwight), grandson of George and Eliza- beth (Parks), great-grandson of Caleb and Phebe (Chandler), and grandnephew of the Rev. James Dana (1735-1812). He was graduated from Yale in 1833; was mathe- matical instructor of midshipmen in the U.S. navy afloat, 1833-35; assistant in chemistry to Pro- fessor Silliman at Yale, 1836-37; sailed with Captain Wilkes in the sloop-of-war Peacock on the U.S. exploring expedition as mineralogist and geologist. 1838-12, and then was em- ployed for thirteen years by the govern- ment in studying and classifying the miner- alogical, geological brought home from

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and zoological material the Southern and Pacific oceans. The results appeared in " Report on Zoophytes " (1846); "Report on the Geology of the Pacific, etc." (1849); and " Report on Crustacea '' (1852-54), four quarto volimies with folio atlases, published by the government. He became Silliman pro- fessor of geology, natural history and mineralogy at Yale in 1850, the title of the chair being changed in 1864 to that of geology and miner- alogy. He was made professor emeritus in 1894. From 1846 until his death he was an editor of the American Journal of Science. His services to science were recognized by leading foreign acad- emies and societies, which elected him to mem- bership or awarded to him medals of honor beyond those awarded anj' other individual scient- ist in the world, and including the "VVollaston gold medal by the Geological societj' of London. He was married in 1844 to Henrietta Frances, third daughter of Prof. Benjamin and Harriet (Trum- bull) Silliman. Their children were, Frances H., who married George D. Coit of Norwich, Conn., Edward S., who became professor of physical sci- ence in Yale, Arnold Guyot. connected with the Financial Chronicle, New York city, and Maria Trumbull. He was a charter member of the Na- tional academy of science in the United States;

president of the American association for the advancement of science, 1854-55; honorary mem- ber of the American philosophical society, and received the Copley gold medal of the Royal society of London, sharing the honor with Count Rumford, Franklin and Agassiz, the only other Americans so honored. He received the degree of LL.D. from Amherst in 1853; that of Ph. D. from the University of Munich in 1872, and that of LL, D. from Harvard in'1886 and from Edin- burgh in 1889. Apart from contributions to periodical publications and to the proceedings of scientitic societies. Professor Dana's published works include, besides the four volumes issued by the U.S. government: ^4 System of Mineralogy (1837, 6th ed., 1892); Manual of Mineralogy (1848, 4th ed., 1887), Coral Beefs and Islands (1872, 2d ed., 1890); Manual of Geology (1863, 4th ed., 1895); Text-book of Geology (1864, 4th ed., 1883); The Geo- logical Story Briefly Told (1875); Characteristics of Volcanoes with Contributions of Facts and Principles from the Hawaiian Islands{18d0); Genesis and Science (1890); On the Four Bocks of theXew Haven Begion, tcith Walks and Drives About Xeiv Haven (1891). He died in New Haven, Conn., April 14, 1895.

DANA, James Freeman, educator, was born at Amherst, N.H., Sept. 23, 1793; eldest son of Luther and Liicy (Giddings) Dana, and grandson of Samuel (1739-1798) and Anna (Kendrick) Dana. His father was a midshipman in the U.S. navy early in life, and during and after the war of the Revolution was master of a vessel in the merchant service. The son's preparatory educa- tion was acquired at Phillips Exeter academy and he was graduated at Harvard in 1813. Hi& name at that time was Jonathan Freeman Dana, but was clianged to James by an act of the Massachusetts legislature in 1820. He studied medicine under Dr. John Gorham, professor of chemistry at Harvard, and in 1815. on the estab- lishment of a new chemical department at Har- vard, he was sent by the corporation to England to purchase apparatus. He remained there sev- eral months studying operative chemistry and on his return was appointed to superint-end the fitting up of the chemical laboratory' and lecture room. He was lecturer on chemistry at Dart- mouth college, 1816-20, and received the honorary degrees of A.M. and M.D. from that institution in 1821; was assistant to the professor of chemistry and teacher of operative chemistry at Harvard, 1819-20, and received the degree of M.D. from that college in 1819; was professor of chemistry and mineralogy at Dartmouth, 1820-26; and pro- fessor of chemistry in the New York college of physicians and surgeons, 1826-27. He was mar- ried in January. 1818, to Matilda, daughter of the Rev. Samuel Webber, president of Harvard. In 1824 he was appointed an aide-de-camp to Gov-