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university and in 1894 became professor emeritus. He died at 
New Haven on April 14, 1895. 
Dana took great interest in the development of the Sheffield 
Scientific School and the Peabody Museum at Yale. He was 
President of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science in 1854, and of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and 
Sciences in 1857. For about so years he served as one of the 
editors of the American Journal of Science. He received the 
Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1872, 
the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1877, and the Grand 
Walker Prize of the Boston Society of Natural History “ for 
distinguished services in natural history’ in 1892. He was the 
first Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences. 
(See Gitman, D. C., The Life of James Dwight Dana, 1899; also the bio- 
graphical sketch by E. §. Dana, in Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, vol. 49, pp. 329-356.) 
CHARLES HENRY DAVIS 
Born, January 16, 1807; died, February 18, 1877 
Seventeen years of Admiral Davis’ early life were spent 
almost constantly at sea, in the service of the Navy. He was 
born in Boston, January 16, 1807, and educated at the Boston 
Latin School and at Harvard College. He entered the Navy in 
1823, having left college for that purpose before his course was 
completed, but taking his degree with the class of 1825. His 
first cruise was to the Pacific on board the frigate United States, 
with Commander Isaac Hull. In this cruise Davis was also 
with the Dolphin, visiting the then unknown islands of the 
Pacific, when a new island of the Society group was discovered. 
The Dolphin was the first American man-of-war to visit the 
Hawaiian Islands. Davis received his midshipman’s warrant 
in 1829, was appointed acting sailing-master of the Ontario, and 
made a three years’ cruise in the Mediterranean. Later he 
served as flag-lieutenant on the Vincennes, was connected with 
the naval rendezvous in Boston, and made a cruise in the 
Independence. During this voyage, the ship stopped at South- 
