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Re: More on Thomas Hubbard Sumner
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Feb 9, 20:42 EST
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2005 Feb 9, 20:42 EST
Fred wrote:
"My recollection is that Dana went to Yale, not Harvard, but, as
my
teenage daughter might say, "whatever!""
teenage daughter might say, "whatever!""
You made me get off the couch! <g>
It really was Harvard, as it turns out, but I'm glad I spent a few
minutes double-checking. I just read the introduction from a 1907
edition of the book. Dana was from a distinguished and wealthy Massachusetts
family so his voyage was of the "personal enrichment" variety. The intro
also notes that his book was extremely popular in England. It says that 2000
copies of the first reprint sold the first day in Liverpool alone.
-FER
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
