130 LIFE OF BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 



than I have done. I am grateful to God, and to many 

 friends, for the numerous favors I have enjoyed in my pub- 

 lic life. 



But his instructions in College were not yet at an 

 end. The Corporation passed resolutions expressing 

 their sense of the great value of his services to the 

 Institution, at the same time requesting him to con- 

 tinue in the Academical and Medical Faculties as 

 Professor Emeritus, with the right to vote in each 

 whenever he chose to exercise it. Mr. Dana, his son- 

 in-law, succeeded to the department of Geology and 

 Mineralogy, while his son, Mr. Benjamin Silliman, 

 Jr., already a Professor in the Scientific School, was 

 appointed Professor of Chemistry in the Medical 

 School, and charged with the instruction of the 

 undergraduate students in that branch. At the sug- 

 gestion of President Woolsey and Professor Salis- 

 bury, by whom, in 1850, a generous contribution had 

 been made towards the endowment of the chair, 

 the department which Mr. Dana assumed was styled 

 the Silliman Professorship of Natural History, and is 

 now known as the Silliman Professorship of Geology 

 and Mineralogy* Mr. Dana not being able to 

 commence at once in his department, Professor Silli- 

 man was requested to continue to give v the lectures 

 in Mineralogy and Geology, until his successor should 

 be ready to take his place ; and with this request he 

 complied. But this temporary duty was compara- 

 tively light, and he felt that his official service was 

 now over. He thus records his satisfaction and grati- 

 tude : 



* Professor Dana was born in Utica, N. Y. His family was of New 

 England origin, his grandfather and Rev. James Dana, D. D., of New 

 ' Haven, having been brothers. F. 



