DANA, JAMES D.

On the conditionof Vesuvius in July, 1834.

New Haven, Hezekiah Howe & Co., 1835. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. In: "The American Journal of Science and Arts. Conducted by Benjamin Silliman". Vol. XXVII. (Entire volume offered). VIII,424 pp,. a. 3 engraved plates. Plates a bit brownspotted. Dana's paper: pp. 281-88.

First appearance of Dana's first paper.

"Dana served as an instructor on a U.S. Navy vessel that sailed to the Mediterranean, where he saw Vesuvius in eruption and pursued entomological studies. His account of the eruption in a letter, published by Silliman in the Journal, was Dana’s first scientific paper. In 1834, Dana returned to Yale, where he developed a new mineral classification based on chemistry and crystallography and using Silliman’s cabinet of minerals and his own." (DSB).

The volume contains another notable paper by GIDEON MANTELL "Notice of the discovery of the remains of the Iguanodon in the Lower Green Sand Formation of the South-east of England. Communcated for this Journal. Pp. 355-360, textillustrations in woodcut.

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