CONTENTS 



CHAPTER V 



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THE UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION, 1838-42 45 



Its Projector, John N. Reynolds Progress of the Plan and its 

 Final Adoption Organization The Naval Officers and the 

 Scientific Corps Dana's Appointment Final Instructions and 

 Departure from Hampton Roads. 



CHAPTER VI 



ROUTE OF THE EXPLORERS, 1838-42 . . . : ^y 66 



Narrative of the Cruise Madeira and Rio de Janeiro Dangerous 

 Passage around Cape Horn : Extreme Peril Valparaiso and the 

 Cordilleras The South Sea Islands : The Paumotus, Society 

 Islands, Samoa Australia Discovery of the Antarctic Con- 

 tinent New Zealand The Feejee and the Sandwich Islands 

 The Northwest Coast of America Shipwrecked at the Mouth of 

 the Columbia Crossing the Pacific Manila, Sooloo, Singapore 

 Return Home by the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena 

 Arrival in New York. 



CHAPTER VII 

 DANA'S OWN LETTERS, 1838-42 . . . 92 



Aspects of Nature in the Pacific Ocean Madeira The Perils 

 of Cape Horn Glimpses of the Patagonians Views of the Andes 

 Missions in the Pacific Impressions of Australia The Ant- 

 arctic Discovery The Scientific Work of the Expedition The 

 Feejee and Sandwich Islands Discovery of Bowditch Island 

 Loss of the Peacock Feejeean Life Later Letters not Dis- 

 covered. 



CHAPTER VIII 

 THE REPORTS OF THE EXPEDITION ; 1842 ONWARD . 140 



Preparation of Three Quarto Reports on the Geology, the 

 ZoSphytes, and the Crustacea of the Expedition In Washington 

 and New Haven Difficulties Respecting the Publication of the 

 Reports Letters to Gray Characteristics of the Three Reports. 



CHAPTER IX 

 THE PROFESSORSHIP IN YALE UNIVERSITY . . .152 



Marriage Aspects of New Haven and of Yale College in the 

 Middle of the Century The Faculty of that Period Overtures 

 from Harvard Appointment in Yale Inaugural Lecture Varied 

 Pursuits Characteristics as a Teacher Estimates of his Pupils- 

 Prolonged Ill-Health. 



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