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GAPON 



Zeus at the oeles- 

 tial banquets. 

 Later, he was 

 identified with 

 the spirit of the 

 sources of the 

 Nile, and as such 

 was placed by 

 astronomers 



fishes, but a more complete study among the constellations as Aquar- 



of the fossil forms has shown so 



many intermediate types that the 



two groups are now classed together 



belonged to a 



Ganoid. The American bowfin, one of the Ganoid family 



in the sub -class Teleostomi, or end 

 mouthed fishes, and the term 

 Ganoidei is practically obsolete. 

 See Sturgeon. 



Gans, EDUARD (1797-1839). 

 German jurist. Bora at Berlin 

 March 22, 1797, he became pro- 

 fessor of law at Berlin University in 

 1825. A man of wide culture and 

 liberal views, his great work on 

 the world development of inherit- 

 ance law appeared in 1824-35, 

 others being The System of Roman 

 Civil Law, 1827, and The Basis of 

 Property, 1 839. He died May 5, 1839. 



Gantang. Mt. pass of the 

 Punjab, India, in Bashahr state. 

 It leads over the Indian boundary 

 into Tibet in lat. 31 40' N., long. 

 78 46' E., reaching an alt. of 

 18,295 ft. amid perpetual snow. 



Gantok. Chief town of Sikkim, 

 an Indian state in the Himalayas. 

 It stands among the mts. 40 m. 

 N.E. of Darjeeling. The inhabitants 

 are allied to the Tibetans and are 

 Buddhists. 



Gantry (Lat. cantherius, trellis, 

 framework). In engineering, an 

 overhead traveller, but lighter in 

 construction and of a lifting power 

 usually not exceeding about 15 

 tons. Used for a variety of pur- 

 poses, such as excavation, coal 

 handling, and bridge erection, gan- 

 tries are provided with a crab and 

 lifting apparatus. A gantry crane 

 is a crane mounted upon a high 

 travelling staging^ under which 

 vehicles such as railway rolling 

 stock may pass. See Derrick. 



Ganyxnedes OR GANYMEDE. In 

 Greek mythology, a Phrygian 

 youth. He was carried off to heaven 

 by an eagle, or by Zeus in the form 

 of an eagle, to be the cup-bearer of 



ius or the water-carrier. 



Ganz, WILHELM (1833-1914). 

 German musician. Born at Mainz, 

 Nov. 6, 1833, he 



Wilhelm Ganz, 

 German musician 



Gantry. 



Brown hoisting gantry for loading, unloading, 

 and stacking coal and other minerals 



musical family. 

 In 1850 he 

 settled in Lon- 

 don, where he 

 became accom- 

 panist to Jenny 

 Lind, and from 

 1874-82 con- 

 ducted the 

 New Philhar- 

 monic and 

 Ganz's orches- 

 Rmseii tral concertSi 



He acted as accompanist to other 

 great singers, and was professor 

 of singing at the Guildhall School 

 of Music. Ganz died Sept. 12, 

 1914. 



Gaol OR JAIL. Place of 

 confinement for criminals and 

 offenders generally. Hence come 

 the words gaoler, a keeper of 

 prisons, and gaol bird, a slang term 

 for an habitual criminal. See 

 Prison. 



Gap. In aeronautics, the space 

 between the upper and lower wings 

 of a biplane or multiplane. 



Gap. Town of France, capital 

 of the dept. of Hautes-Alpes. It 

 stands on the Luye, 48 m. S.S.E. 

 of Grenoble. It has a modern 

 cathedral and in the prefecture is 

 a valuable collection of manu- 

 scripts, as well as a museum. 

 Another building is the bishop's 

 palace. It has some small manu- 

 factures. Gap was a Roman settle- 

 ment, and in the Middle Ages was 

 chiefly famous as the seat of a 

 powerful bishop. 



Gapes. Common disease in 

 poultry affecting young chickens, 

 in which it produces a heavy mor- 

 tality. It is due to the presence of 

 a worm, which is 

 found sometimes 

 : in great numbers 

 in the windpipe 

 of the chicken, 

 causing great 

 irritation and 

 weakness conse- 

 quent upon efforts 

 to expectorate the 

 parasite. Actual 

 suffocation may 

 occur. The 

 ground becomes 

 infected by the 



Ganymedes carried off by the eagle of 

 Zeus, as painted by Correggio 



Imperial Gallery, Vienna 



eggs of the worm being scattered 

 in all directions. The poultry are 

 noticed to be gaping, sneezing, 

 running backwards, and finally to 

 be greatly exhausted. Attention 

 should be paid to the food and 

 water, and then to the affected 

 ground. The chickens should be 

 put upon a fresh run, dressed with 

 lime. See Poultry. 



Gapon, GEORGE (c. 1870-1906). 

 Russian labour leader. Born of a 

 peasant family at Biliki, a village 

 in Poltava, S. BH^^BHB^^^H 

 Russia, he 

 gained his first 

 impressions of 

 social injustice 

 from his father. 

 an official of 

 the group of 

 communes. 

 Trained for the 



came under the influence of 

 Tolstoi's writings. Becoming a 

 priest, he moved to St. Petersburg. 

 Contact with the daily life of the 

 poor convinced him that labour 

 organization was needed to secure 

 improved conditions, and the St. 

 Petersburg Factory Workers' So- 

 ciety, founded in April, 1904, was 

 soon followed by similar societies. 



