LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA 



In another letter Dana writes that he does not expect 

 to remain in the navy beyond the next fall. " I have set 

 my heart on going to Paris to study my profession, and 

 hope that father's consent and assistance will be given. 

 I should be highly gratified to remain nine or ten months 

 in that place, a city where exists as much science as in 

 any other in the world, if not more." 



After a cruise in the Levant, and a sojourn in Smyrna, 

 the naturalist came home, arriving in New York near the 

 end of the year, after a voyage of sixteen months. 



