Dana family.

JAMES DWIGHT DANA was born in Utica, New York on February 12, 1813. He graduated from Yale College in 1833. Dana sailed as a member of the Wilkes Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. He authored several books and articles on mineralogy and geology, and taught at Yale University from 1849-1890. Dana died in New Haven, Connecticut on April 14, 1895.

EDWARD SALISBURY DANA, B.A. 1870.

Born November 16, 1849, in New Haven, Conn.

Died June 16, 1935, in New Haven, Conn.

Father, Professor James Dwight Dana (B.A. 1833). Mother, Henrietta Frances (Silliman) Dana. Yale relatives include: Ebenezer Silliman (B.A. 1727) and Jonathan Trumbull (LL.D. 1779) (great-great-grandfathers); Gold S. Silliman (B.A. 1752) and Jonathan Trumbull (LL.D. 1797) (great-grandfathers); Benjamin Silliman (B.A. 1796) (grandfather); Gold S. Silliman (B.A. 1796) (great-uncle); Benjamin Silliman (B.A. 1837) and William B. Dana, '51 (uncles); George D. Coit, '66 S. (brother-in-law); and James D. Coit, ex -'03 S., and Albro N. Dana, '20 (nephews).

Hopkins Grammar School. Hurlbut Scholarship Freshman year; philosophical oration appointments Junior and Senior years; member Delta Kappa, Phi Theta Psi, Psi Upsilon, Scroll and Key, and Phi Beta Kappa.

Graduate student in mineralogy Sheffield Scientific School (1870-1872), and Heidelberg and Vienna (1872-1874); M.A. Yale 1874, Ph.D. 1876; tutor mathematics, physics, and chemistry at Yale 1874-1879, assistant professor of natural philosophy 1879-1890, professor of physics 1890-1917, professor emeritus since 1917; curator of mineralogy Peabody Museum 1874-1922; made important contributions to administration of Yale College through committee service, especially the Committee on the Course of Study (chairman 1906-1917) and Committee on Ways and Means (chairman 1911-1917); trustee Peabody Museum 1885-1929 (secretary 1895-1899, chairman 1899-1929); foremost American mineralogist of his time; made the first investigation of a rock and its constituents from the petrographic point of view (1872) and published the first important memoir in petrography to appear in the United States ("Trap Rocks of the Connecticut Valley," 1875); research activities (1872-1890) concerned with crystallographic and optical descriptions of minerals (47 papers); with his classmate George Bird Grinnell member of Captain Ludlow's expedition from Carroll, Montana Territory, to Yellowstone National Park, in summer of 1875; in January, 1875, became an editor of the American Journal of Science (founded in 1818 by his grandfather, Benjamin Silliman); served with his father and Benjamin Silliman, Jr., until February, 1885, with his father from March, 1885, to April, 1895, sole editor May, 1895, to 1926 when, owing to his serious illness, ownership of the magazine was transferred to Yale University; continued, however, until his death to assist in its publication; author: A Textbook of Mineralogy, with an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and Physical Mineralogy (1877; rewritten for edition of 1898); A Textbook of Elementary Mechanics, for the Use of Colleges and Schools (1881); sixth edition of the James D. Dana System of Mineralogy (1892); Minerals and How to Study Them (1895); co-author with Professor Chester R. Longwell, Walks and Rides in Central Connecticut and Massachusetts (1932); was a great lover of nature and a famous walker; had a summer home at Seal Harbor, Maine; Alumni Fund Agent for his Class since 1932; member Mineralogical Society of America (elected honorary president for life 1925); American Museum of Natural History and New York Mineralogical Society (elected honorary life member 1934); National Academy of Sciences (1884), Edinburgh Geological Society, Mineralogical Society of Great Britain, the Philosophical Society (Cambridge), and the Akademie der Wissenschaften (Vienna); corresponding member Vienna Reichsanstalt (elected 1874), Sociedad Mexicana de Historia Natural (elected 1874), Mineralogical Society of St. Petersburg (elected 1884); honorary member American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, Geological Society of America, and the Physical Society of America; foreign member of the Geological Society, London (corresponding member 1888).

Married October 2, 1883, in New Haven, Caroline, daughter of William Brooks Bristol (B.A. 1825) and Caroline (Bliss) Bristol, granddaughter of William Bristol (B.A. 1798), great-granddaughter of Moses Bliss (B.A. 1755) and of Simeon Bristol (B.A.1760), niece of Albert G. Bristol (B.A. 1827), and of Louis Bristol (B.A.1835), grandniece of George Bliss (B.A. 1784), and of William M. Bliss (B.A. 1790), and sister of Louis H. Bristol, '59, Eugene S. Bristol, '68 S., and John W. Bristol, '77. Children: Mary Bristol, the wife of Alexander C. Brown, '07; James Dwight, '11; and William Bristol, '18. Mrs. Dana died September 7, 1916.

Death due to arteriosclerosis. Buried at Seal Harbor, Maine. Survived by daughter, sons, seven grandchildren, one of whom is Alexander C. Brown, Jr., '35, a brother, Arnold G. Dana, '83, and a sister, Miss Maria Trumbull Dana, of New Haven.

Yale University Obituary Record, pp. 11-13.

From the guide to the Dana family papers, 1805-1961, (Manuscripts and Archives)