ARNOLD HENRY GUYOT. 



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principal editors of Johnson's Cyclopaedia (1874 to 1877), the 

 other being President Barnard, of Columbia College. Prof. 

 Guyot was much impressed by the correspondences to be found 

 between the account of creation in Genesis and the progress of 

 evolution contained in the geological record, and his latest 

 publication was devoted to this subject, being entitled Creation, 

 or the Biblical Cosmogony in the Light of Modern Science. 



Prof. Guyot received the honorary degree of LL. D. from 

 Union College ; he was one of the original members of the 

 National Academy of Sciences, an associate member of the Royal 

 Academy of Turin, honorary correspondent of the Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society of London and of the Geographical Society 

 of Paris, a member of the American Academy of Science, the 

 American Philosophical Society, and other learned bodies. 



In 1867 Prof. Guyot married a daughter of the late Gov- 

 ernor Haines, of New Jersey, a lady of intelligence and refine- 

 ment, who made for him the happiest of homes. He left no 

 children. 



Prof. Henry C. Cameron, of Princeton, who was intimately 

 associated with him for more than twenty-five years, has de- 

 scribed him " as a man of the most cultivated taste in every 

 respect in music, in painting, in short, in all the fine arts. I 

 have known no man who could generalize as he could. His 

 knowledge of history and philosophy, his acquaintance with 

 theology, and his scientific attainments were wonderful. 

 Everything was assimilated and systematized so that all he had 

 learned seemed always to be at perfect command. A perfect 

 gentleman, a model Christian, a man whose equal I have never 



