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Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Prussia, of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Bavaria, of the Imperial Society of Naturalists at Moscow, of the Helvetic Society of Natural Sciences, of the Philomathic Society at Paris, of the Academy of Sciences at Liége, of the Geological Society at London, of the Linnæan Society at London, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at Boston, of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, of the Lyceum of Natural History at New York, &c. Professor James D. Dana was born February 12, 1813, in Utica, Oneida County, State of New York, where he passed his early years. In the autumn of 1830 he entered Yale College, in New Haven, Connecticut, attracted by the reputation of Professor Benjamin Silliman, sen., the distinguished Pioneer in American Science, whose lectures on Chemistry and Geology during more than half a century have added lustre to that ancient and celebrated institution of learning. During the regular course of study at New Haven, Mr. Dana evinced an especial love for the natural sciences, without neglecting philological and mathematical pursuits, in the latter of which he was distinguished. He was graduated with honour, Bachelor of Arts, in 1833, and about the same time received the appointment of Teacher of Mathematics to Midshipmen in the Navy of the United States. In that capacity he sailed to the Mediterranean, in the U. S. ship of the line "Delaware," returning in 1835. During the two years following he acted at Yale College as Assistant to the distinguished Professor whose successor in office he afterwards became. In December, 1836, he was appointed Mineralogist and Geologist of the Exploring Expedition then about to be sent by the Government of the United States to the Southern and Pacific Oceans. The five vessels of the squadron, under the command of Commodore Wilkes, sailed in August, 1838, on a voyage around the world. After extensive explorations, and suffering shipwreck moreover at the mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon, Mr. Dana returned home in June, 1842. The rare opportunities which this voyage afforded for scientific observation had been well improved. During the thirteen years after its termination, he was engaged in preparing for publication the various reports of this Expedition committed to his charge, and in pursuing other scientific labours. He resided at Washington from 1842 to 1844, and then returned to New Haven, Connecticut, where he soon after married Henrietta Frances, third daughter of Professor Benjamin Silliman, and where he has since resided. Before going to the Pacific he published, in 1837, the first edition of his Mineralogy, a work of high repute in Europe and America, of which the fourth and last edition appeared in 1854. His first publication connected with his observations in the Exploring Expedition was a Report on Zoophytes, which appeared in 1846, a 4to volume of 740 pages, with an Atlas of 61 folio plates. In this work, Mr. Dana reviewed the whole department of Polyps, combining his own observations with those of earlier authors, and proposed a new classification, bringing, for the first time, the Actiniæ and the Alcyonoid Polyps into their true relations to the Astræoid Polyps. The number of new species which he describes is two hundred and thirty. The second work in the same series was a Report on the Geology of the Pacific, published in 1849, a 4to vol. of 756 pages, with an Atlas of 21 Plates. This work presents a view not only of the geology of parts of Australia, Western America, and the islands of the Pacific, but also treats at length, and with original views, of Volcanic phenomena, Coral Reefs and Islands, and the General Features of the Globe, The third work, pertaining to this Government Exploring Expedition, was a Report on Crustacea, which appeared in 1852-1854, the text 1620 pages 4to, the Atlas 96 Plates in folio. Six hundred and eighty species are described in this work, of which six hundred and fifty-eight are new. The subjects of Classification and Geographical Distribution receive in it special attention. These Reports were published by the Government of the United States, and only 200 copies of each have thus far been issued. With few exceptions, the drawings in these atlases were made by Mr. Dana himself. While engaged in preparing the last two of these reports, Mr. Dana has been the active Editor of the American Journal of Science and Arts, founded in 1819, by Professor Silliman, sen., and well known as the great repository of the scientific labours of their countrymen. To this Journal which reached its seventy-third volume in 1857, as well as to the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, the Lyceum of Natural History of New York, and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Mr. Dana has contributed various important memoirs. Soon after the resignation by Professor Silliman of the Chair of Chemistry and Geology in Yale College, Mr. Dana entered, in 1855, on the duties of the office of Silliman Professor of Natural History and Geology in that Institution, to which place he had been elected in 1850, his brotherin-law, Professor Benjamin Silliman, jun., having been appointed to the Chair of Chemistry. In discharging the duties of his professorship and in editing the American Journal of Science, Professor Dana is now engaged. In 1854 he was elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, having been for many years one of the Standing Committee of that body, and in August, 1855, he delivered the Annual Address before that Association at its meeting in Providence. Professor Dana's contributions to science evince uncommon skill in observation and great industry, united to a high order of genius. They are probably unsurpassed in extent and value by those of any American philosopher. The principal publications of Professor Dana are as follows: Treatise on Mineralogy, 1st edition, 8vo, pp. 572. New Haven, 1837. 2nd edition, 8vo, pp. 634, 1844. 3rd edition, 8vo, pp. 712, 1850. 4th edition, 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 320 and 554, 1854. Manual of Mineralogy, 12mo, pp. 432. New Haven, 1851. 2nd edition, 1857. Reports of the U. S. Exploring Expedition under Commander Wilkes-(published by the Government of the United States) : On Zoophytes. 4to, text pp. 740, Atlas, 61 plates folio. Washington and Philadelphia, 1846. 1849. On Crustacea. 2 vols. 4to, pp. 1620. 1852-3. Atlas 96 plates folio. 1855. On Coral Reefs and Islands. 8vo, pp. 144. New York, 1853. American Journal of Science and Arts (Mr. Dana's more important papers). First Series.-Vol xxx. 275, On the Formation of Twin Crystals. xxxiv. 225, Anatomy of the Caligus Americanus. xlv. 131, 310, Areas of subsidence in the Pacific indicated by the distribution of coral reefs and islands. xlix. 49, Origin of the constituent and adventitious Minerals of Trap Rocks. Second Series.-Vol. ii. 335, On the Volcanoes of the Moon. iii. 94, 176, 381, iv. 88, On the Geological effects of the Earth's contraction and origin of Continents. iv. 364, v. 100, On Cohesive Attraction. ix. 220, 407, On Isomorphism and Atomic Volume in some minerals. xvi. 153, 314, Isothermal Chart of the Ocean. xvii. 35, 210, 430, Homœomorphism among Minerals. xviii. 85, 131, Homœomorphism of Minerals of the Trimetric System. De Kay.-Zoology of New York; or, the New York Fauna; comprising detailed descriptions of all the Animals hitherto observed within the State of New York, with brief notices of those occasionally found near its borders, and accompanied by appropriate Illustrations, by James E. De Kay. Published by Authority. In six Parts, 4to. Albany, 1842-1844. N |