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* DANA. 765 DANA. August 8, ISIO. He studied at Harvard, but, owing to defective eyesiglit,, did not graduate. He joined the Brook Farm Assoi-iation in IS-ll, edited in its interest The Jlarhiiujcr, oontrilnited to the Boston I'hrunotijpe, and, after llie fail- ure of Brook Farm, was, with its founder. Kip- ley (q.v. ), connected with the New York Trib- une (1847-62). Disagreement with Horace Greeley in ^ar politics, jjroclaimed in a once- famous editorial, "On to Richmond," forced his resignation. He was Assistant Secretary of War ill 1803-64. After the war he edited the Cliicago Republican, which failed. He then re- turned to Xew York and became part proprietor and editor-in-chief of the Xew Y'ork .S'hh — a position which he lield from 1868 to his death. With George Ripley he planned and edited the New American Cuclopwclia (18S7-63), and its successor, the American Cyclopwdia (1873-76). He compiled also the well-known Household Book of Poetry (1857), and collaborated in a Life of Grunt (1868). Other works are: The Art of yewspuper Making (189.5) : Lincoln and His Cabinet (1896); and Recollections (1897). At the time of his death at Glen Cove, L. I., on October 17, 1897, ^Ir. Dana was in many ways the most noted journalist in the country. He had a brilliant intellect and understood evei'y detail of the art of making a good newspaper, but he was generally believed to be so intense in his prejudices that he failed to acquire the au- thority to which his talents entitled him. DANA, CiiAKLES LoOMis (1852 — ). An American neurologist. He was born at Wood- stock, Vt., and was educated at Dartmouth Col- lege and the Xew York College of Physicians and Surgeons. He served as professor of physiologj' in the New York Woman's Medical College, of nervous and mental diseases at the Xew York Postgraduate iledical School, and of nervous diseases in Dartmouth Medical College, and for a time was president of the American Xeuro- logical Associ.Ttion. Besides numerous papers, his publications include a Text-book of Nercotis Diseases (1892). DANA, Enw.En Sali.sbukt (1849—). An American mineralogist, born at New Haven, Conn. He graduateil at Yale University in 1870, and became tutor there in 1874. He received his doctor's degree at Yale in 1876. and also studied at Heidelberg and Vienna. In 1879 he was made assistant professor of natural philosophy and astronomy, and later professor of physics, at Yale. His publications include numerous papers on mineralogical topics; '"Appendix I." and "Ap- pendix II." of Dana's System of Mineralogy; a Text-Book of Mineralogy (1877) ; Minerals and Hoio to Studi/ Them, and a Text-book of Mechan- ics (ISSl). ' DANA, Fr.^ncis (17-I.'?-1811). An Ameri- can statesman and jurist. He was born in Charlestown, ^lass.; graduated at Harvard in 1762; soon became prominent at the bar, and, as a Whig, in colonial politics: and from 1776 to 1780 was a member of the Executive Council of Massachusetts. He was elected to the Conti- nental Congress in 1776, and from the first took a conspicuous part in the work of that body. In 1778 he was made chairman of a committee appointed to draw up plans for the reorganiza- tion of the army, and in the same year was a member of the committee of three to which the conciliatory proposals of Lord North were re- ferred. He went abroad in September, 1779, :i3 the olTicial secretary of Jolin Adams, recently appointed to negotiate a tre;ity of peace with Grc;it Britain, and, after -]ieniUng some time ill Paris and Amsterdam, was sent in ^larch, 1781, as United States Minister to the Court of Saint Petersljiirg. Catharine persistently refused to receive him as an accredited ilinister, however, and in 1783 he returned to America. He was again elected to the Continental Congress (1784), and in January, 178.5, was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Massaclmsctts. In 1786 he was a delegate to the Annapolis Con- vention (q.v.), and in the following year was also elected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia, but was prevented by illness from attending. In the State Conven- tion of 1788 he cooperated with Theophilus Par- sons and .John Hancock in securing the ratifica- tion of the Federal Constitution by Massachu- setts. He was Chief .Justice of the Massachu- setts Supreme Court from 1791 to 1806, during which period he took no active part in State or national politics. DANA, James Dwight (1813-95). Ml American geologist and one of the eminent scien- tists of the last century. He was born in Utiea, N. Y. His father was a successful business man of New England birth, and his mother was Har- riet Dwight, daughter of Seth Dwight, of Wil- liamsburg, Mass. Dana early became interested in scientifie studies. In his school days at Utica he devoted much time to chemical investigations, and he frequently made excursions to distant points for the purpose of collecting minerals. Attracted by the reputation of Professor Silli- man, he entered Yale College in 1830, where for three j-ears he pursued the study of classics, mathematics, and natural sciences. In 1833 Dana received an aijpointment as instructor in the United States Navy, a position that afforded him an opportunity of European travel. Three years afterwards he returned to Yale and was appointed assistant to Professor Silliman. Wliile at New Haven he publislied his first important scientific work {The Hystem of Mineralogy), a Ijook that subsequently passed through seVeral editions and attained a reputation in both Europe and America as a standard of reference. From 1838 to 1842 Dana was a member of the Wilkes Exploring Expedition sent out by the United States Government. While on this e.- pedition. which explored the little known parts of the Pacific Ocean, he had a wide field for scientific discovery and description. The oppor- tunities presented were such as few scientists have received; so extensive was the material col- lected that, upon his return to the I"nited States, Dana devoted thirteen years of almost constant labor to its study. The results were published by the Government in three voluminous reports: ■'Zoiiphytes." in Vnited Stairs Exploring Expe- dition (Philadelphia, 1846); "Geology." in United States Explorimi Expedition Under C. Wilkes, U. 8. A". (Philadelphia. 1849); and "Crustacea," in United States Explorinq Expedi- tion Under r. Wilkes. U. S. N. (New York, 1852- 54 ). In the work on "Zoiiphytes." 230 species were described by Dana for the first time, while the report on "Cristacea" contained descriptions of no less than 658 new species. The intense zeal with which Dana pursued this task seriously