CHAPTER XI 



THE " AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS " 



The American Journal of Science and Arts Sketch of its History Its 

 Work and Influence in the Advancement of Science Dana's Editorial 

 Labors. 



VARIOUS allusions have already been made to the 

 American Journal of Science and Arts, which re- 

 ceived so large a part of the time of Professor Dana 

 during the last fifty years of his life, a service entitled to 

 ample recognition. A brief history based upon authentic 

 data, which appeared in the Yale Alumni Weekly for June 

 3, 1896, will here be repeated and supplemented. 



This well-known periodical was established in 1818 by 

 Benjamin Silliman, and it has continued to be edited and 

 published by members of his family from that time to the 

 present, aided more or less by other scientific experts. 

 For a long time it was quoted as Silliman s Journal, but 

 as Dana's part in its management became more and more 

 important, it was properly spoken of as the American 

 Journal. Originally its scope was very comprehensive, 

 and the plan has never been formally altered. In recent 

 years, other journals of a special character have relieved 

 its pages of certain classes of articles, and yet it still re- 

 mains, with its comprehensive summaries and its admir- 

 able indexes, the best repository of American scientific 

 papers. 



Its maintenance has not been free from difficulties. 

 No pecuniary assistance ever came to it from the treasury 



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