INDEX 



Samoa, 74, 75, 86, 87, 111-113, 128 

 Sandwich Islands, see Hawaiian 



Islands 



San Francisco (Cal.) in 1841, 89 

 Santiago (Chili), 107 

 Saussure, H. de, Letter from, 353 

 Sheffield Scientific School, 38 (note), 



163, 164 



Shepard, Charles U., 32, 33, 37, 43 

 Silliman, Benjamin, 17, 20, 32, 33, 



38, 43, 149, 55, 156, 159-162, 193, 

 . 3 6 3 

 Silliman, Benjamin, Jr., 152, 159, 



196, 308, 326 

 Silliman, Benjamin D., 32 ; letter 



from, 271 



Smith, Sidney I., 166 

 Society Islands, 74 ; letter from, no 

 Sooloo, Sultan of, Treaty with, 90 

 Southard, Samuel L., 47 

 Stanley, Anthony D., 155 

 Stevenson, Robert Louis, 55, 75, 77 



and note 



Stewart, Charles S., 26 

 Stoddard, Charles W., 55 

 Stuart, Moses, 182 

 Sydney (Australia), 78, 114, 115, 



122 



Taconic Question, 260, 335-337, 



339 



Taft, Alphonso, 18 

 Tahiti, 73, no, in 

 Tappan, Benjamin, 144-146, 148 

 Thacher, Thomas A., 156, 289 

 Thiers, A., 357 

 Tonga Islands, 83, 84, 116 

 Twain, Mark, quoted, 77 

 Twining, Alexander C., 155, 164 



Underwood, Lieutenant, 85 

 United States Exploring Expedition, 



1838-42, chaps, v.-viii. 

 Utica (N. Y.), Dana's Birthplace, 



13, 14, 40, 43, 141, 161, 162, 163; 



high school at, 15 



Valparaiso (Chili), 107, 109 



Van Buren, Martin, 50 

 Verrill, Addison E., 166, 197, 284 

 Vesuvius, Ascent of, 367 

 Volcanism, 251 

 Volcanoes, Hawaiian, 243 

 Volcanoes, Volume on, ch. xiv. 



Walcott, Charles D., 167, 260, 265, 

 269 ; quoted, 167 



Walker Prize, 278 



Wallace, Alfred R., 331, 332 



Whelpley, James D., 29, 33, 69 



White, Henry, 164, 1 80 



Whitney, J. D., 329 



Whitney, William D., 155, 159, 

 163-165 



Wilkes, Charles, Commander of the 

 U. S. Exploring Expedition, 45, 

 5i, 52, 57, 63, 64, 65, 66-91 

 (frequently) ; letter to, from Dana, 

 130 



Wilkes Land, Discovery of, 116, 



JI7 



Williams, George H., 166, 167 

 Williams, Henry S., 166, 197, 263, 



268, 340 ; quoted, 202, 253 

 Williams, Rev. John, Missionary, 



76, nt, 113, 114 

 Williams, S. Wells, 17, 143, 274, 



275 

 Winthrop, Robert C., 277; letter 



from, 357 



Wollaston Medal, 277 

 Woodward, Henry, Letters from, 



271, 278 

 Woolsey, Theodore D., 154, 157, 



164 



Yale College and University, Dana's 

 Connection with, 17-20 and ch. 

 ix. ; Silliman professorship at, 6 ; 

 Institute of Natural Science at, 33, 

 54 ; Berzelius Society, 38 ; cabi- 

 net of minerals, 18, 33 ; Peabody 

 Museum, 1 8, 208 ; Dana's descrip- 

 tion of the college in 1871, 395-402 



Zoophytes, Report on, 144-151 



409 



