LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA 



from strangers across the sea can in any way lessen? Yet 

 it may be some consolation to you to know how deeply 

 and widely your husband was beloved and admired, and 

 how truly we feel, wherever science is cultivated, that 

 one of our great masters has passed away. 



" For myself, I have more than the common regret, for 

 I have seen him personally in his own home and have 

 learnt how he brightened that home, and how lovingly 

 and tenderly he was watched over there. I have been 

 with him in the field and have had the geological features 

 of his home pointed out to me in his characteristic en- 

 thusiastic way. I have had many kindly letters from 

 him. And thus I feel that a dear personal friend has 

 been lost to me. 



" Most truly do I share in this grief, for I have learnt 

 to know something of the tenderness, sympathy, and 

 simple-mindedness which underlay those high mental 

 gifts which we all so reverenced and admired." 



FROM PROFESSOR JOHN W. JUDD TO PROFESSOR 

 E. S. DANA 



" 16 CUMBERLAND ROAD, KEW, 28th April, 1895. 



" Allow me to express to you the profound sympathy 

 I feel for your mother, yourself, and all the members of 

 your family in the great loss you have sustained. All 

 that memory of the universal admiration and esteem in- 

 spired by him who is lost can do to assuage the bitter- 

 ness -of your grief, is assuredly yours. Bound as we are 

 by ties of language and consanguinity, I believe that the 

 news of your father's death has produced as great a shock 

 in the scientific world of Old England as it has done in 

 New England. 



' Though it was never my good fortune to have had 

 the opportunity of grasping your father's hand, yet fre- 

 quent correspondence has made me so familiar with the 

 sweetness and generosity of his nature, with his untiring 

 energy, his devotion to science, and his love of truth, 

 that I feel that I have lost in him a warm personal friend. 

 In America he must have occupied a place like that filled 

 by Darwin in this country, and geologists and mineralo- 

 gists all over the world will feel that the greatest of all 

 the masters of our science has now passed away." 



270 



