The Life of James Dwight Dana - Scientific Explorer, Mineralogist, Geologist, Zoologist, Professor in Yale University #231713

In preparing the biography, which is personal rather than scientific, the subject of it is his own interpreter, and wherever his language could be introduced, or that of his correspondents, I have preferred to quote rather than to condense or rewrite what they have Said. At the same time, I trust that sufficient explanations have been given to Show the conditions under which the writers spoke.