The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-15

| Wilkes. The expedition sailed in Aug
 ust, 1888, and MT. Dana was on board | the Peacock until it was wrecked
 on sand-bar at the mouth of Colum-
 bia river In June. 1842, after an ab- | sence of three years and ten months,
 MT. Dana returned home. Besides the
 mineralogy and geology he had under his supervision the geological depart
 mentsI including the icrustacea and | corals. During the thirteen years that l followed he was occupied principally l in studying the material that he had | collected, making drawings and prepar-
 ing the reports for publication. From | lS42 till 1S44 he resided in Washington, and then removed to New Haven, where he married Henrietta Frances, third daughter of Professor Silliman, and had since continued to reside. The results of his labors were given in his
 Reports on zoophytes" (4to, with an atlas of 61 folio plates,,, 1S46), in which he proposed a new classification, and
 described 230 new species, the Report
 on the Geology of the Pacific" (4to, with an atlas of 21 plates, 1S49); and the Report on Crustacea" (4to, with an atlas of 96 folio plates, 1S52-'D.
 These were published by the govern
 ment in Washington, and only one
 hundred copies of each were issued.
 With few exceptions, the drawings in
 the atlases were made by MT. Dana
 himself. He was appointed Silliman
 professor of natural history and geology
 at Yale in 1850, and entered on the ad-
 manifestations of the chair in 1855. The
 eI1n q n1i f,f hn Ot1
 atuIal history by others led to a change
 in the title of the professorship, in
 1864, to that of geology and mineralogy. Professor Dana became, about 1850, as-
 sociate editor of the American Journal
 or Science and Arts" founded by the
 elder Silllman in 181a Subsequent to
 the death of Professor Snliman he be-
 come it's senior editor, and i'm com junction with his son, Edward S.
 Dana, continued its publication. In 1872
 the Geological society of London con-
 ferred on him its Wollaston medal,
 and in 1877 he received the Copley gold
 medal from the Royal society of Lon don. He was a member of scientific soci- cities in the United States and abroad,
 including the Royal society of London,
 the Institute of France, the Royal academies of Berlin, Vienna and St.
 Petersburg and was one of the original members of the National Academy of Science in the United States. Profess sor Dana was elected president of the American Association for the Advance ment of Science in 1854 and in August of the following year delivered his re- tiring address at the Providence meet ing. In 1872 on the celebration of the fourth centennial of the University of Munish, he received the degree of Ph. D. and in 1886 at the Harvard celebra- tion the degree of ILL D. was con- ferred upon him. His contribution to the American Journal of Science and Arts, to the Proceedings of the Ameri- can Academy, to the Transaction of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York and to the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- delphia include hundreds of titles. His works in book form are System of Coral Reefs and Islands" Manual of Geology" "Text Book of "Corals and Coral Islands" "The Geological Story" briefly told.