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Professor of Chemistry in the college, was associated 

 with him, and with the beginning of the second series, 

 James D. Dana, his son-in-law, and soon to be made 

 Professor of Geology and Mineralogy, became also one 

 of the editors-in-chief. These two gentlemen then carried 

 on the work together, the senior editor having retired, but 

 later most of the editorial labor devolved upon Professor 

 Dana, and this remained true until the later years of his 

 life. Then these duties were assumed by his son, Edward 

 S. Dana, whose name appeared among the editors-in-chief 

 in 1875. 



" Soon after the beginning of the second series, in 

 1851, Dr. Wolcott Gibbs became an associate editor in 

 the departments of chemistry and physics; in 1853, Dr. 

 Asa Gray, and in the following year Professor Louis Agas- 

 siz were added in the same capacity; about ten years 

 later Professors Brush, Johnson, and Newton, of New 

 Haven, became also similarly associated with the work of 

 the Journal. Since this time the corps of the associated 

 editors, changing and enlarging with the years, have 

 taken an essential part in the conduct of the Journal, and 

 much of what it has accomplished has been due to their 

 labors. As an illustration of this, the long series of 

 reviews and abstracts of botanical papers furnished by Dr. 

 Gray may be pointed to ; these are recognized as an im- 

 portant and most attractive part of the scientific work of 

 a naturalist. 



' To-day, in 1896, the associate editors are eleven in 

 number, including Professors Newton, Marsh, Verrill, 

 and Williams, of New Haven ; Professors Goodale, Trow- 

 bridge, Bowditch, and Farlow, of Cambridge, with Pro- 

 fessor Barker, of Philadelphia, Professor Rowland, of 

 Baltimore, and Mr. J. S. Diller, of the United States 

 Geological Survey in Washington. The Journal, while 

 in a sense a local institution, has thus had the cordial 

 support of the workers elsewhere, especially at Harvard 

 University. Though its home is in New Haven, it has 

 always held a national position, its sphere extending out 

 over the entire country. 



" It^has been stated that the first series included fifty 

 volumes. Two were issued annually and each consisted 

 of two numbers. With the second series, which com- 

 menced in 1846, the Journal ceased to be quarterly, the 



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