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to which he afterwards devoted his life, and in his early man- 
hood he began the researches in Geology and Mineralogy that 
afterwards bore such rich fruit. Geology,and to an even greater 
degree Mineralogy, were subjects that then especially com- 
manded the attention of the Lyceum of Natural History, as this 
Academy was formerly called. The Lyceum early recognized 
the promise of Professor Dana, and made him a Corresponding 
Member in 1836, when he was but twenty-three years of age. 
His third published paper, entitled “A New Mineralogical 
Nomenclature,” was read before this Society in May, 1836, and 
was printed in the Annals of that year. Six years later he was 
elected an Honorary Member in recognition of his System of 
Mineralogy (1838) and of his four years of labor on the Wilkes 
Exploring Expedition (1838-42). He became one of the edi- 
tors of the American Journal of Science in 1846, and for nearly 
fifty years retained this position. To him in no small degree is 
to be credited the magazine’s characteristic attitude of just and 
well-balanced criticism of current work and publications. Our 
knowledge of the Zodphytes and Crustaceans was vastly in- 
creased by the published results of his voyages, and his contri- 
butions to the geology of volcanoes and coral islands were no 
less important. In 1862 his Manual of Geology appeared and 
became at once the standard American text-book. It is a source 
of gratification that he lived to complete its revision, and that 
the last edition, in vastly improved and augmented form, was 
brought out by its original author. 
Of serene and cheerful disposition, Professor Dana aspired to 
high spiritual as well as intellectual attainments; his personal 
influence was uniformly thrown on the side of exalted ideals. 
As teacher and friend he will be mourned by many hundreds of 
his students. - 
Be it therefore 
Resolved, That in the death of Professor James Dwight 
Dana, American Science has lost one of its most eminent and 
successful investigators, education a great teacher, and the 
world a true and just man. 
