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nomena and became in a truer and profounder sense an explanation, Dana 

 was a leader. I shall not try to decide how much was due to him and how 

 much was due to others. Any attempt at appropriation of credit was foreign 

 to his nature. He was one of the group of men who fouud geology a chronicle 

 and left it a history. 



Hardly second to the joy of discovery in Dana's mind was the joy of impart- 

 ing discovery to others as writer, as editor, and as teacher. In the days of the 

 old curriculum, where a text-book course was given in each of several sciences. 

 the question whether the students gained anything of its underlying spirit 

 depended almost wholly on the teacher's personality. Every man who studied 

 geology under Dana got below the letter and felt something of the spirit that 

 gave life. He was, I think, at his best in the excursions which he took with 

 his classes to points in the neighborhood of New Haven, where he would dis- 

 course with equal enthusiasm on the gorgeous minerals in the barytes mine 

 of Cheshire or the cavities in the Shore Line Railroad cut that ought to have 

 topaz but did not. If there was one thing that he seemed to love particularly 

 it was glacier scratches, and it is needless to add that he was a connoisseur as 

 well as an enthusiast. Well do I remember the time when the wag of the 

 class surreptitiously made soire glacier scratches of his own and called Pro- 

 fessor Dana's attention to them in the presence of the class. He had taken 

 much pains to have the direction right and the execution as lifelike as pos- 

 sible, and he thought the scratches would pass muster ; but all the comment 

 that he obtained was, "They look like the work of an Irishman." 



The burden of ill health was one from which during the latter part of his 

 long life Mr. Dana was never wholly free. But he carried it with indomitable 

 fortitude, and in spite of his illness did work which would have seemed beyond 

 the powers of a well man. He was fortunate in his love for the things he did, 

 fortunate in the affection and admiration of a group of associates ou the Yale 

 faculty, most fortunate of all in his home and family life. A group of visible 

 and tangible memorials of his work have been collected in the University 

 library for this occasion. A more enduring monument, of a kind which would 

 have appealed to him more strongly, is furnished by the research fellowship 

 at Yale which bears his name and will enable others to cany on his work of 

 discovery. But the greatest memorial of all is the affectionate remembrance 

 of the man and of his work which lives in the hearts of us who come after him. 



The following four addresses were then delivered : 



DANA, THE MAN 

 BY WILLIAM XORTH RICE 



James Dwight Dana was born February 12. 1813. and died April 14. 1895. 

 His cnreer of scientific work was exceptionally long and fruitful. His first 

 scientific paper was published in 1835; his last in 1895 — sixty years later. 



The parents of Professor Dana were people of intelligence and high char- 

 acter, and the general influences of the home were altogether wholesome. 

 There seems to have been, however, nothing in the environment of his child- 

 hood especially helpful toward a scientific career. In Utica Academy he re- 

 ceived an impulse toward science from his teacher. Fay Edgerton. a man who 



