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INDEX 



Funafuti Island, 261; see also Coral 

 Islands 



Gadsden, Bishop, 96 



Galvanic cells, 357 



Garfield, James Abram, 387 



Garman, Samuel, 163 



Garrison, Dr. Fielding H., 362 



Gastman, E. A., 163 



Gaudry, Prof. Albert, 308 



Geanticlines, 255 



Genealogical monograph, Model, 



395 

 Genera, On the Origin of, by E. D 



Cope, 331 



Genus Salpa, by W. K. Brooks, 437 

 Geographical evolution, 257 

 Geology, Science of, Dana's contri- 

 bution to,- 251 

 Geology of the Wilkes Exploring 



Expedition, report on, 239, 259 

 Geosynclines, 255, 256 

 Germain, Sir George, 17, 19 

 Gibbon, Edward, 20 

 Gibbs, Col. George, collection of 



minerals, 105; also 109 

 Gibbs, Josiah Willard, ancestry, 

 birth and education, 346; tutor of 

 Latin, 347; student in Europe, 

 347; influence of Clausius, 347; 

 professor at Yale, 348; publica- 

 tion of first paper, 348; "thermo- 

 dynamical surface," 349; lays 

 foundation of new science, 350; 

 slow recognition by scientists, 350; 

 contributions to theory of light 

 and of galvanic cells, 357; final 

 work and death, 357; Count Rum- 

 ford compared with, 342; qualities 

 as a teacher, 358; personal char- 

 acteristics, 360; honors, 361; esti- 

 mates of his genius, 361; see also 

 Gibbs' Phase Rule; Vector Analy- 

 sis 



Gibbs, Walcott, 13 

 Gibbs Phase Rule, 354, 355 

 Gibraltar, solar eclipse of 1870, 377 

 Gildersleeve, Prof. Basil L., 439 

 Gill, Theodore, 315, 317, 326, 327, 



331, 334, 397, 40i 

 Gilliss, James M., 371 

 Gilman, Daniel Coit, 411, 413, 417, 



437, 440 

 Girard, Charles, 402 



Glaciers, theory of "drift," 263; 



also 155, 156, 168, 290 

 Goeppert (Breslau), 291 

 Goode, George Brown, birth and 

 education, 391; in service of U. S. 

 Fish Commission and of Wesleyan 

 University, 392; association with 

 Baird, 393; Assistant Secretary of 

 Smithsonian Institution, 393; as 

 museum administrator, 393, 394; 

 interest in biography and geneal- 

 ogy, 3945 offices held, 395; char- 

 acteristics and influence, 396; 

 Oceanic Ichthyology, 398; other 

 papers and monographs, 399, 401 ; 

 work on loth Census, 400; deep- 

 sea explorations, 401; biblio- 

 graphical work, 402; marriage, 

 402; personal qualities, 402; also 

 269, 277, 280 

 Gorham, Prof. John, 98 

 Gorilla, recognition as a new species, 

 1 86; history of discovery, 188; 

 first papers on, 186, 190, 191 

 Gould, Augustus Addison, 180, 189 

 Government science, system of, 143 

 Grant, Gen. Ulysses Simpson, 273 

 Grassman, Hermann Giinther, 356 

 Gray, Asa, birth, 211; education, 

 212; "call" to botany, 213; mak- 

 ing an herbarium, 214; acquaint- 

 ance of Dr. John Torrey, 214, 216; 

 Elements of Botany published, 

 215; curator and professor, 215- 

 217; visits to European herbaria, 

 216; work in American systematic 

 botany, 218, 219; Synoptical Flora 

 of North America, 219, 227; 

 facility for work, 220; qualities 

 as teacher, 220; work as critic, 

 224; expounder of Darwinism, 

 226, 248; personal life and reli- 

 gious convictions, 228; testi- 

 monial, 230; death, 231; also 157, 

 178, 184, 187, 193-195, 2 43 note, 



237 



Greenwich observatory, 376 

 Gregory, Dr. James, 98 

 Greville, Robert Kaye, 97 

 Grube (Breslau), 291 

 Gunpowder, see Explosives, Science 



of 



Guyot, Arnold, 158, 264 

 Guyot, Frederick, 163 



