LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA 



the debt which geology owes to him. Our congratula- 

 tions are for the pupils who have had such a master, but 

 our admiration and veneration are for the master ! May 

 his lifelong pursuit, so ardently, so diligently, so per- 

 sistently followed, not cease to interest and solace him as 

 the evening shadows draw on, is the heartfelt wish of all. 

 SIMON NEWCOMB, CHARLES SCHUCHERT, 



S. F. EMMONS, R. L. PACKARD, 



CHAS. D. WALCOTT, LESTER F. WARD, 



G. K. GILBERT, FRANK H. KNOWLTON, 



BAILEY WILLIS, T. W. STANTON, 



G. BROWN GOODE, E. W. PARKER, 



ROBERT T. HILL, DAVID T. DAY, 



JAMES C. PILLING, GEO. P. MERRILL, 



WHITMAN CROSS, CARL BARUS, 



HENRY GANNETT, F. W. CLARKE, 



H. M. WILSON, GARRICK MALLERY, 



J. S. DILLER, J. L. EASTMAN, 



N. H. DARTON, Jos. C. HORNBLOWER, 



MARCUS BAKER, EDWIN E. HOWELL, 



CHAS. WILLARD HAYES, THOMAS M. CHATARD, 

 and all the other friends in Washington, if they could 

 only be caught to sign the paper." 



Throughout his later life academic honors had been 

 abundant. Amherst College, the home of the geologist 

 of the Connecticut valley, President Edward Hitchcock, 

 conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of 

 Laws in 1853, before he entered upon the professorship 

 at Yale. He was admitted to the like distinction at Har- 

 vard in 1886, and at Edinburgh in 1889. From Munich, 

 in 1872, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of 

 Philosophy. Among the foreign academies to which he 

 was elected were these : the Royal Societies of London 

 and Edinburgh and Dublin, the Academy of Sciences in 

 the Institute of France, the Imperial and Royal Acad- 

 emies of St. Petersburg, Vienna, Berlin, Gottingen, 

 Munich, Stockholm, Buda-Pesth, and the Royal Lincei 

 of Rome. One of the earliest of such honors was an 

 election to the Soci6t6 Philomathique in Paris. From 

 his own countrymen the like recognition came at Boston, 



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