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Dana1, James Dwight (1813-95), American naturalist, geologist, and mineralogist. He founded an important classification of minerals based on chemistry and physics. His view of the earth as a unit was an evolutionary one, but he was slow to accept Darwin's theory of evolution. 达纳, 詹姆斯·德怀特(1813-1895, 美国博物学家、地质学家和矿物学家, 奠定了以化学和物理学为基础的对矿物的重要分类方法; 他关于地球是统一体的观点是一进化论观点, 但他接受达尔文的进化论却很迟疑)。
Dana2, Richard Henry (1815-82), American adventurer, lawyer, and writer, known for his account of his voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to California, Two Years before the Mast (1840). 达纳, 理查德·亨利(1815-1882, 美国冒险家、律师和作家, 以其从波士顿绕霍恩角至加利福尼亚的航行报道《当普通水手两年》[1840]闻名)。
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