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bia, S. C. and Its Vicinity," which contains the names of 

 about 900 species, with notes on some of them. 



About this time a reorganization of the College took 

 place, and Mr. Gibbes found his tutorship abolished 

 and himself constituted acting professor of mathemat- 

 ics. He continued to act in this capacity until the close 

 of the college term in June, 1835. 



Returning to Charleston, he took his second course 

 in the Medical College of the State, and was admitted 

 to the degree of M. D. in March, 1836, receiving the 

 prize cup for the French essay. He then sailed for 

 France, and pursued in 1836-37 his studies at Paris, 

 under the ablest professors at the Sorbonne. While here 

 he was a constant visitor to the Jardin des Plantes, and 

 from the professors there employed he obtained botan- 

 ical and conchological specimens in exchange for those 

 carried over by him from this country. At the time of 

 his death his Herbarium contained more than 4,000 

 specimens. 



In November, 1837, he returned to Charleston, and 

 was elected professor of mathematics in the College of 

 Charleston in February, 1838, a position which he filled 

 for more than fifty-four years. Though originally a 

 teacher of mathematics, his subsequent instruction em- 

 braced astronomy, mechanics, physics and chemistry. 

 In 1853 he declined the professorship of mathematics 

 in the South Carolina College. From 1848 to 1853 he 

 did much work in the United States Coast survey. Be- 

 ginning with 1837, he wrote articles on subjects con- 

 nected with astronomy, natural history, etc., for various 

 publications. An article "On the Occultator," publish- 

 ed in the American Journal of Science, March, 1869, 

 was reprinted in journals in England and France. 



In Vol. I, Proceedings of the Elliott Scjciety we find 

 the following statement. "Prof. Gibbes, after most 

 faithful service as president for 37 years, declined re- 

 election." 



Of his work. Prof. R. Means Davis had the following 

 to say in a short article in a publication entitled "The 



