LIFE OF JAMES DWIGHT DANA 



Manila, 89 



Mantell, Dr., 162 



Marquesas Islands, 86 



Marsh, James, 187 



Marsh, Othniel C., 166, 177, 197, 

 284, 287, 290, 334 



Mason, Ebenezer Porter, 155 



Mauna Kea, 86 



Mauna Loa, 86, 124 



McClure, William, 34 



McKenzie, Alexander, 181, 188 



McLeay, Alexander, 115 



McLeay, William S., 115 



Medical Staff of the Exploring Ex- 

 pedition, 58 



Mediterranean Cruise, Dana's, 24- 

 30 



Melville, Herman, 56 



Merritt, William C., 232, 235, 243 



Meteoric Showers, 54, 125 



Milne-Edwards, H., Letters from, 



348-353 

 Missionaries, Impressions of their 



Work, 104, 105, ill, 113, 121, 



128 



Mitchell, Donald G., 156, 272 

 Montgomery, James, criticised, 212, 



213, 227 



Morse, S. F. B., Letter from, 355 

 Munger, T. T., 267 

 Murchison, Sir R., 330 

 Murray, Rev. Mr., Missionary, 112, 



128 



National Academy of Sciences, 165, 



329, 362 



Naturalists, Celebrated, Ages of, 279 

 Navigators' Islands, see. Samoa 

 Negroes in Rio de Janeiro, Charac- 

 teristics of, 67 

 Newcomb, Simon, and others, 



Letters from, 275 

 New Haven, in 1850, 153 ; studies 



of the surrounding region, 165 

 New Haven University, Dana on 



the, 395-402 



Newton, Hubert A., 155, 197 

 New Zealand, Observations in, 80- 



83, 114, 116; acquisition of, by 



Great Britain, 81 

 Noir Island, near Cape Horn (danger 



to the Relief}, 69, 70, 94, 99, 103 

 Norton's Literary Gazette quoted, 



211 



Nott and Gliddon's Types of Man- 



1 T ^* * 



kind, 324 



Noyes, Burr, 32 



Olmsted, Denison, 33, 155, 157 

 Owen, Professor, 314 



Pacific Ocean, subsidence of, 221 ; 



cruise of the Wilkes Squadron, 



see United States Exploring Ex- 



pedition 



Pago-Pago, 56, 75, 77 

 Palmer, Captain N. B., 48 

 Palmer, Dr. J. C., 283 ; his poem 



Thu'da, 377 

 Park, Edwards A., 185 

 Patagonians, Glimpses of the, 103 

 Paulding, James K., 50, 64 ; letters 



to, 80, 8 1 

 Paumotus, 72, 209 

 Peabody Museum, 164, 334 

 Peacock, Wreck of the, 88, 94, 116, 



130 ; bad condition of, 67 

 Peale, Titian R., 56, 57, 70, 79, 88, 



96, 122 



Pearce, James A., 49 



Percival, James G., Estimate of 



his Geology of Connecticut, 158, 



364 ; Coral Grove quoted, 220, 225 

 Philippine Islands, 89, 90 

 Pickering, Charles, 50, 56-58, 70, 



90, 96, 109, 121 ; Gray's estimate 



of, 59 



Pickering, John, 50 

 Pierce, Benjamin, Letter from, 186 

 Poinsett, Joel R., 50, 62 

 Pomare, Chief, 82 

 Preston, E. D., 247 

 Prestwich, Sir Joseph, Letter from, 



269 

 Publication, Difficulties of, 144 ff., 



Randall, John Witt, 56 

 Reid, James W. E., 70 

 Reynolds, John N., Advocate of the 



U. S. Exploring Expedition under 



Wilkes, 45-49, 53 

 Rich, William, 57, 88, 90, 96, 109, 



122 



Ridgeley, C. G., 52 

 Ringgold, Cadwallader, 53, 86 

 Robinson, Sir Hercules, 85 

 Roscoe, Sir Henry, 264 

 Ross, Captain, 79, 80 (note) 

 Russell, William H., 18 



Salisbury, Edward E., 156, 158 



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