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=Gibson, William.= _Md._, 1826-1887. A United States naval officer
retired in 1879. Sailing Directions for the Kattegat, etc.; Poems of
Many Years; Vision of Faery Land, and Other Poems; a translation of the
Miscellaneous Poems of Goethe. _Le._
=Gibson, William Hamilton.= _Ct._, 1850-1896. An artist and author
of New York city who has illustrated his own writings. The Complete
American Trapper; Pastoral Days; Highways and Byways; Strolls by
Starlight and Sunshine; Happy Hunting-Grounds; Sharp-Eyes, a Rambler’s
Calendar; Camp Life in the Woods; Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms.
_See New England Magazine, February, 1897._ _Har._
=Giddings, Franklin Henry.= _Ct._, 1855- ----. A lecturer on sociology
at Columbia University since 1891. Report on Profit Sharing; The Modern
Distributive Process (with J. B. Clark); The Principles of Sociology.
_Mac._
=Giddings, Joshua Reed.= _Pa._, 1795-1864. A once noted anti-slavery
statesman and congressman of Ohio. The Exiles of Florida; The
Rebellion: its Authors and its Causes; Speeches in Congress; Essays of
Pacificus. _See Life by G. W. Julian, infra._
=Gihon, Albert Leary.= _Pa._, 1833-1901. A United States naval surgeon.
Practical Suggestions in Naval Hygiene; Need of Sanitary Reform in Ship
Life; Sanitary Commonplaces Applied to the Navy; Prevention of Venereal
Disease by Legislation.
=Gilbert, Benjamin.= _Pa._, 1711-1780. A miller of Northumberland,
Pennsylvania, who wrote on theological themes. Truth Defended;
Discourses on Perfection; Further Discourses on Sin, Election,
Reprobation, and Baptism.
=Gilbert, Charles Henry.= _Il._, 1859- ----. An ichthyologist,
professor of zoölogy at Stanford University. Synopsis of the Fishes of
North America (with D. S. Jordan).
=Gilbert, David McConaughy.= _Pa._, 1836- ----. A Lutheran clergyman
of Virginia. The Lutheran Church in Virginia, 1776-1876; The Synod
of Virginia; The Annihilation Theory Briefly Examined; Muhlenberg’s
Ministry in Virginia.
=Gilbert, Grove Karl.= _N. Y._, 1843- ----. A geologist attached to
the United States Geological Survey. Geology of the Henry Mountains;
Topographical Features of Lake Shores; Geology of Nevada, Utah, etc.;
Lake Bonneville.
=Gilder, Richard Watson.= _N. J._, 1844- ----. A writer of New York
City well known both as a poet and as the editor of The Century
Magazine, of which, with its predecessor, Scribner’s Monthly, he has
been editor-in-chief since 1881. The New Day, The Poet and his Master,
Lyrics; The Celestial Passion; Two Worlds; The Great Remembrance, and
Other Poems; Five Books of Song (1894), include all of his collected
poems up to the year of issue. _Cent._
=Gilder, William Henry.= _Pa._, 1835-1900. Brother of R. W. Gilder,
_supra_. An Arctic explorer. Schwatka’s Search; Ice Pack and Tundra.
_Scr._
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