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See also: American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist, was See also: born in See also: Utica, New See also: York, on the 12th of See also: February 1813
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He early displayed a taste for science, which had been fostered by See also: Fay Edgerton, a teacher in theUtica high school, and in 183o he entered Yale See also: College, in See also: order to study under Benjamin See also: Silliman the elder
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Graduating in 1833, for the next two years he was teacher of See also: mathematics to midshipmen in the See also: navy, and sailed to the Mediterranean while engaged in his duties
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In 1836—1837 he was assistant to Professor Silliman in the chemical laboratory at Yale, and then, for four years, acted as mineralogist and geologist of a See also: United States exploring expedition, commanded by Captain See also: Charles Wilkes, in the Pacific ocean (see WILKES, CHARLES)
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His labours in preparing the reports of his explorations occupied parts of thirteen years after his return to
See also: America in 1842
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In 1844 he again became a See also: resident of New Haven, married the daughter of Professor Silliman, and in 185o, on the resignation of the latter, was appointed Silliman Professor of Natural See also: History and Geology in Yale College, a position which he held till 1892
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In 1846 he became joint editor and during the later years of his See also: life he was chief editor of the American Journal of Science and Arts (founded in 1818 by Benjamin Silliman), to which he was a See also: constant contributor, principally of articles on geology and See also: mineralogy
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A See also: bibliographical See also: list of his writings shows 214 titles of books and papers, beginning in 1835 with a paper on the conditions of Vesuvius in 1834, and ending with the See also: fourth revised edition (finished in February 1895) of his See also: Manual of Geology
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His reports on Zoophytes, on the Geology of the Pacific See also: Area, and on See also: Crustacea, summarizing his See also: work on the Wilkes expedition, appeared in 1846, 1849 and 1852—1854, in See also: quarto volumes, with copiously illustrated atlases; but as these were issued in small numbers, his reputation more largely rests upon his See also: System of Mineralogy (1837 and many later See also: editions in 1892); Manual of Geology (1862; ed
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4, 1895); Manual of Mineralogy (1848), afterwards entitled Manual of Mineralogy and Lithology (ed
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4, 1887); and Corals and See also: Coral Islands (1872; ed
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2, 1890)
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In 1887 Dana revisited the Hawaiian Islands, and the results of his further investigations were published in a quartoSee also: volume in 189o, entitled Characteristics of Volcanoes
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By the Royal Society of See also: London he was awarded the See also: Copley medal in 1877; and by the See also: Geological Society the Wollaston medal in 1874
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His See also: powers of work were extraordinary, and in his 82nd See also: year he was occupied in preparing a new edition of his Manual of Geology, the 4th edition being issued in 1895
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He died on the 14th of See also: April 1895
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His son See also: EDWARD See also: SALISBURY DANA, born at New Haven on the 16th of See also: November 1849, is author of A Textbook of Mineralogy (1877; new ed
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1898) and a Text See also: Book of Elementary See also: Mechanics (1881)
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In 1879—8o he was professor of natural philosophy and then became professor of physics at Yale
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See Life of J
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D
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Dana, by Daniel C
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See also: Gilman (1899)
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