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=Daly, John Augustin.= _N. C._, 1838-1899. A dramatist and theatrical
manager of New York city who, besides adapting many plays from the
German and the French, wrote Divorce; Pique; Horizon; Under the
Gaslight, and other plays, as well as Peg Woffington, a Tribute to the
Actress and the Woman.
=Damon, Howard Franklin.= _Ms._, 1833-1884. A hospital physician of
Boston. Leucocythæmia; Neurosis of the Skin; General Remarks on the
Frequency of Skin Diseases. _Lip._
=Dana, Alexander Hamilton.= _E._, 1807-1887. A lawyer of New York
State. Ethical and Physiological Inquiries; Inductive Inquiries in
Physiology; Ethics and Ethnology; Enigmas of Life, Death, and the
Future State.
=Dana, Charles Anderson.= _N. H._, 1819-1897. A distinguished
journalist of New York City. He was assistant secretary of war 1863-65,
and since 1868 the editor of The New York Sun. His political writing is
noted for its bitter partisanship, but the literary quality of his work
is admirable. With J. G. Wilson, _infra_, he prepared a Life of General
Grant, and was co-editor with George Ripley, _infra_, of the American
Cyclopædia. The Household Book of Poetry was edited by him. _Ap._
=Dana, Charles Louis.= _Vt._, 1852- ----. A physician of note as a
neurologist, who has published a Text-Book on Nervous Diseases.
=Dana, Edward Salisbury.= _Ct._, 1849- ----. Son of J. D. Dana,
_infra_, assistant professor of natural philosophy at Yale University
since 1879, and curator of the mineral cabinet in the Peabody Museum
there. Since 1875 he has been one of the editors of Silliman’s Journal.
Text-Book of Mineralogy; Text-Book of Elementary Mechanics; Appendix
II. (1875) and Appendix III. (1883) of Dana’s System of Mineralogy.
_Wil._
=Dana, James.= _Ms._, 1735-1812. A once famous Congregational clergyman
of New Haven, who wrote An Examination of Edwards on the Will.
=Dana, James Dwight.= _N. Y._, 1813-1895. A celebrated geologist,
professor at Yale University from 1850. System of Mineralogy; Manual
of Mineralogy; Text-Book of Geology; Corals and Coral Islands; The
Geological Story Briefly Told. _Am. Do. Wil._
=Dana, James Freeman.= _N. H._, 1793-1827. A chemist and physician, the
first professor of chemistry at Dartmouth College. Epitome of Chemical
Philosophy; Outlines of the Mineralogy and Geology of Boston and its
Vicinity (with S. L. Dana, _infra_).
=Dana, Mrs. Katharine [Floyd].= _L. I._, 1835-1886. A writer of New
York City. Our Phil and Other Stories. _Hou_.
=Dana, Mrs. Mary.= _See Shindler, Mrs._
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