TRIBUTES TO HIS MEMORY 



latest work, which will always stand as a monument to 

 the breadth of his knowledge and to his devotion to 

 geology. It is a fitting culmination of a great career. 



"In grateful appreciation of the value of Professor 

 Dana's life-work, and with earnest sympathy for yourself, 



" We remain yours, 



"CHAS. D. WALCOTT, ARTHUR KEITH, 

 G. K. GILBERT, J. W. POWELL, 



S. F. EMMONS, G. F. BECKER, 



ARNOLD HAGUE, W. J. McGEE, 



BAILEY WILLIS, C. WILLARD HAYES, 



J. S. DILLER, ROBT. T. HILL, 



GEO. H. ELDRIDGE, N. H. DARTON, 

 WALTER H. WEED, DAVID T. DAY, 



W. LINDGREN, CHARLES SCHUCHERT, 



F. H. NEWELL, T. W. STANTON, 



M. R. CAMPBELL, DAVID WHITE, 



F. W. CLARKE, F. H. KNOWLTON, 



W. F. HlLLEBRAND, LESTER F. WARD, 



H. N. STOKES, WM. H. DALL, 



WHITMAN CROSS." 



Of the many expressions of affection and respect which 

 were received by Mrs. Dana and her son Edward, a few 

 only can be given here. 



FROM SIR JOSEPH PRESTWICH TO MRS. DANA 



" DARENT-HOLME, SHOREHAM, SEVENOAKS, April 30, 1895. 



" It was with the deepest regret that I heard of the ir- 

 reparable loss you had sustained in the death of your dis- 

 tinguished husband. He was my near contemporary, I 

 being not quite a year older. We never met, but I seem 

 to have known him in consequence of our correspondence, 

 and the interest I took in his work, and his brilliant career 

 as a geologist. He was long the Doyen of American 

 geologists, and his loss will be deeply mourned on this 

 side of the Atlantic." 



FROM SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE TO MRS. DANA 



" 28 JERMYN STREET, LONDON, S. W., 6th May, 1895. 



" Will you accept my sincere sympathy in the sorrow 

 which has fallen upon you and yours, and which no words 



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