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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

James Dwight Dana (1813–1895)

Dana, James Dwight. An American scientist; born at Utica, NY, Feb. 12, 1813; died at New Haven, April 14, 1895. He was professor of geology at Yale. He published: ‘System of Mineralogy’; ‘Manual of Mineralogy’; ‘Text-Book of Geology’; ‘Corals and Coral Islands’; ‘The Geological Story Briefly Told’; etc.