LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA 



" I should be pleased to have this letter used to en- 

 lighten any geologist interested in our American geologi- 

 cal problems." 



DANA TO GEIKIE 



"NEW HAVEN, Aug. 21, 1888. 



" I take pleasure in introducing to you Prof. Henry S. 

 Williams, of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. an able 

 geologist and paleontologist. He proposes to be present 

 at the meeting of the International Geological Congress. 

 Whatever questions connected with American geology 

 may come up there, or may be occupying your own mind, 

 you will find him full of knowledge and of excellent 

 judgment." 



DANA TO GEIKIE 



" NEW HAVEN, Jan. 4, 1889. 



" It will be a great pleasure to me to welcome you 

 again to our New Haven. I have received your very 

 valuable memoir on the Volcanic History of Tertiary 

 Great Britain, and will soon have an appreciative notice 

 of it in the Journal of Science. It is a strange fact in 

 geology that the eastern border of the Atlantic should 

 have so contrasted with the western. 



" Before long I shall be able to send you a complete 

 copy of my Hawaiian memoir. The long delays between 

 the parts have come from the pressure of contributors for 

 space in the Journal ; and for the same reason it will be 

 April or May before the closing part, on the rocks of the 

 region, by my son, is published. 



' The International Geological Congress in London 

 acted wisely in its appointment of the American Com- 

 mittee. The prefix Provisional, which at first looked 

 ominous, turned out to be most fortunate. A simple 

 vote at the first meeting of each of us for twenty-five 

 names on one ballot resulted most quietly in electing 

 twenty good men, with the three obnoxious ones left 

 out." 



DANA TO GEIKIE 



" NEW HAVEN, February 4, 1890. 



' You know of Sterry - Hunt's paper on Cambrian 

 History. . . . It has had a bad perverting influence 



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