TRIBUTES TO HIS MEMORY 



FROM BENJAMIN D. SILLIMAN TO MRS. DANA 



"56 CLINTON STREET, BROOKLYN, April 18, 1895. 



" I was most unwillingly absent from your sad circle* 

 yesterday. No hindrance less than that of a ninetieth 

 year and a disabling cold would have prevented my being 

 with you. 



" Our dear friend was fitter for the world to which he 

 has gone than for a longer stay in this. We who remain 

 ought to be grateful that such almost boundless know- 

 ledge and wisdom and goodness were accorded to him 

 here and that his transit from earth to heaven was, like 

 that of your blessed father, translation rather than death. 

 His was indeed a most useful and honored life. History 

 records the names of few, if any, who have so enlarged 

 the bounds of science and deserved and received so 

 largely the grateful plaudits of the most learned, the 

 wisest, and the highest of their fellow-men. None but 

 a very great mind could have deserved and received 

 such rare honors and borne them with such simplicity 

 with such entire absence of vanity or even of observable 

 elation. I have long regarded him as a very great as well 

 as a very good man." 



FROM HENRY WOODWARD, PRESIDENT OF THE GEOLO- 

 GICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, TO MRS. DANA 



" GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, BURLINGTON HOUSE, 

 " W. LONDON, 8th May, 1895. 



" On behalf of the Council of the Geological Society of 

 London, I am desired to transmit to you the following 

 resolution, passed this day : 



' The President and Council of the Geological Society 

 of London have learnt with deep regret the decease of 

 their distinguished fellow-geologist, Professor James 

 Dwight Dana, LL.D, Ph.D., A.M., who for forty-four 

 years was a Foreign Member of the Society, and was a 

 recipient of the Wollaston Medal in 1872, the highest 

 honor which the Society has in its power to bestow. 

 They desire to place on record their profound sense of 

 the loss which the sciences of Geology and Mineralogy 



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