LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA 



have sustained by the death of Professor Dana, who has 

 so largely contributed to establish these sciences not only 

 in America, but also in Europe, and who, as editor of the 

 American journal of Science, has kept alive for years an 

 active interest in all branches of natural science both at 

 home and abroad. The President and Council desire to 

 convey to Mrs. Dana and her son their heartfelt sympathy 

 with them on the irreparable loss that they have suffered.' 

 " Yours very faithfully, 



" HENRY WOODWARD, 



14 President." 

 FROM W. FORSTER HEDDLE 



"ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND, May 18, 1895. 



" I thank you much for having sent me the notice of 

 your illustrious father. I have for years considered him 

 to be, taking him all round, the first mineralogist in the 

 world especially as a diffuser of mineralogical know- 

 ledge through his unrivalled Systems of Mineralogy. 

 The advantage which I myself have derived from these 

 works, as regards such knowledge as I have, is not to be 

 told. I always went to them as to a haven to cast my 

 anchor in, and know where I was. His views regarding 

 certain rocks so nearly, if not absolutely, corresponded 

 with my own that I have been in the habit, in discussions 

 with some members of our Geological Society, of shaking 

 your father's pages in their faces, as it were. 



" I have never, also, forgotten I can never forget the 

 kindly and the interested way in which he expressed him- 

 self to me on the few occasions upon which I corresponded 

 with him. I am very sorry that I did so little but I am 

 a bad correspondent, and when I thought of the immense 

 amount of the work which he must have undertaken in 

 keeping his Systems up to date, I did not like to claim a 

 moment of his time. I also thank you for that likeness 

 it is a noble head, has a grand carriage, and the sparkle 

 of the eye is wonderful." 



FROM DONALD G. MITCHELL, ESQ. 



" EDGEWOOD, April 17, 1895. 



" I cannot forbear adding my word of condolence to 

 those which must have come to you from so many. 



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