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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 50 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 GiLMAN, D. C, The Life of James Dwight Dana, 1899; also the bio- 

 graphical sketch b)' E. S. Dana, in Avier. 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- 



