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temperature of the water. His expedition report on " Coral Reefs and 

 Coral Islands," separately published in 1853, was afterwards extended 

 by him into an elaborate account of " Corals and Coral Islands " (406 

 pages), the preface of which bears the date of 1872. 



His work procured him many marks of distinction, both at home 

 and abroad. He was an original member of the National Academy 

 of Sciences of the United States, and in the year 1854 occupied the 

 presidential chair of the American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science. He was made LL.D. by Amhersfc College in 1853, 

 and by Harvard and Edinburgh Universities in 1886. In 1851 he was 

 elected a Foreign Member of the Geological Society of London, and 

 in 1872 received from that society its Wollaston Medal. In the same 

 year the University of Munich conferred upon him the degree of 

 Ph.D. ; in 1877 he received the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of 

 London, and in 1884 was elected one of its Foreign Members. He 

 was a corresponding member of the scientific academies of Paris, 

 Berlin, Vienna and St. Petersburg, and of many other learned 

 societies. 



Daring all his life he had a strong love for music. He played the 

 violin and the flute, was for a time the leader of the college choir, 

 and even made some attempts at musical composition. As a man he 

 was noted for the gentleness and kindliness of his character, and was 

 thus on excellent terms with his colleagues. Professor Dana leaves a 

 widow and four children. 



Owing to the specialisation rendered necessary by the progress of 

 knowledge, it will be long before we can expect to have with us a 

 man of science with attainments so varied in character as were 

 those of the United States veteran, James Dwight Dana. 



L. F. 



