CONTENTS 



PART I 

 CHAPTER I 



PAGE 



INTRODUCTION . . . . . * . 3 



The Man to be Portrayed Sources of Information Quotation 

 from Dr. Jowett The Dana Family in America Their Probable 

 Italian Origin. 



CHAPTER II 

 SCHOOL AND COLLEGE; PRIOR TO 1833 ... 13 



Boyhood in Utica Early School-Days and Teachers Reminis- 

 cences of Dr. Bagg Life in Yale College Distinguished Class- 

 mates Characteristics as an Undergraduate Bent toward Natural 

 Sciences. 



CHAPTER III 

 MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE, 1833-34 . . . .21 



Teacher of Midshipmen in the United States Navy Voyage to 

 the Mediterranean Gibraltar to Smyrna First Impressions of 

 Nautical Life Port Mahon Scientific Studies Ascent of 

 Vesuvius. 



CHAPTER IV 

 PREPARATION OF THE "MINERALOGY," 1835-38 . .. 31 



Waiting for Opportunities : A Period of Solicitude Assistant to 

 Professor Silliman The Yale Institute of Natural Science Prep- 

 aration of the Treatise on Mineralogy Chemical Nomenclature 

 Letters to Berzelius The Various Editions of the System of 

 Mineralogy Models of Crystalline Forms. 



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