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  JAMES 
  DWIGHT 
  DANA 
  

  

  James 
  Dwig-ht 
  Dana, 
  Professor 
  of 
  Geology 
  and 
  Min- 
  

   eralogy 
  in 
  Yale 
  College 
  and 
  for 
  fifty 
  years 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  editors 
  

   of 
  this 
  Journal, 
  died 
  suddenly 
  at 
  his 
  residence 
  in 
  New 
  Haven, 
  

   Connecticut, 
  on 
  the 
  fourteenth 
  of 
  April, 
  1895, 
  at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  

   eighty-two 
  years 
  and 
  two 
  months. 
  

  

  He 
  was 
  born 
  in 
  Utica, 
  New 
  York, 
  on 
  the 
  twelfth 
  of 
  Febru- 
  

   ary, 
  1813. 
  His 
  father, 
  James 
  Dana, 
  was 
  of 
  New 
  England 
  

   birth, 
  having 
  moved 
  to 
  Utica 
  from 
  his 
  parents' 
  home 
  in 
  Massa- 
  

   chusetts. 
  He 
  was 
  a 
  successful 
  business 
  man 
  and 
  died 
  in 
  1860 
  

   at 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  eighty. 
  His 
  mother 
  was 
  Harriet 
  D 
  wight, 
  daugh- 
  

   ter 
  of 
  Seth 
  D 
  wight 
  of 
  Williamsburgh, 
  Massachusetts. 
  

  

  The 
  strong 
  inborn 
  taste 
  for 
  science 
  was 
  shown 
  in 
  early 
  years, 
  

   and 
  he 
  was 
  fond 
  of 
  relating 
  his 
  pleasant 
  experiences 
  at 
  the 
  

   Bartlett 
  Academy 
  in 
  Utica, 
  when, 
  as 
  a 
  boy 
  of 
  twelve, 
  he 
  

   studied 
  chemistry 
  with 
  his 
  associates, 
  sharing 
  with 
  them 
  the 
  

   responsibility 
  of 
  preparing 
  the 
  experiments 
  and 
  delivering 
  to 
  

   the 
  others 
  the 
  formal 
  lectures. 
  At 
  the 
  same 
  time, 
  frequent 
  

   excursions 
  after 
  minerals 
  with 
  his 
  companions 
  served 
  to 
  give 
  a 
  

   special 
  direction 
  to 
  his 
  scientific 
  interests 
  and 
  thus 
  helped 
  to 
  

   determine 
  the 
  department 
  in 
  which 
  his 
  first 
  work 
  was 
  to 
  be 
  

   done 
  when 
  maturity 
  had 
  developed 
  his 
  powers. 
  These 
  excur- 
  

   sions 
  were 
  led 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Fay 
  Edgerton, 
  the 
  excellent 
  instructor 
  

   in 
  Natural 
  Science, 
  and 
  extended 
  to 
  distant 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  

   and 
  also 
  to 
  neighboring 
  States 
  ; 
  one 
  excursion 
  into 
  Vermont 
  

   was 
  remembered 
  with 
  much 
  delight. 
  

  

  To 
  the 
  opportunities 
  afforded 
  by 
  the 
  early 
  training 
  in 
  science, 
  

   that 
  have 
  been 
  alluded 
  to, 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  interest 
  it 
  excited, 
  Profes- 
  

   sor 
  Dana 
  ascribed 
  much 
  of 
  the 
  success 
  that 
  he 
  afterwards 
  

   attained. 
  One 
  of 
  his 
  schoolmates, 
  closely 
  associated 
  with 
  him 
  

   in 
  the 
  Bartlett 
  Academy, 
  was 
  S. 
  Wells 
  Williams, 
  for 
  many 
  

   years 
  missionary 
  in 
  China 
  and 
  in 
  his 
  later 
  life 
  again 
  a 
  colleague 
  

  

  Am. 
  Jour. 
  Sci.— 
  Third 
  Series, 
  Yol. 
  XLIX, 
  No. 
  293.— 
  Mat, 
  1895. 
  

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