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Centennial celebration of the granting of the charter to 

 South Carolina College:" 



''While his favorite study was astronomy, he was at 

 home in almost every branch of modern science. The 

 variety of his knowledge was as remarkable as its 

 range. Natural history was a branch which he eagerly 

 pursued, and in which he was the colleague of Agassiz, 

 of Holbrook and of Bachman. As an astronomer, he 

 made many practical calculations. Next to astronomy, 

 botany engrossed his affections. His mind possessed 

 the range of the telescope, the accuracy of the micro- 

 scope, and the variety of the kaleidoscope. Prof. Gibbes 

 was always a teacher; not only as a duty, but at home, 

 by the way, everywhere as w^ell as in his chair as a pub- 

 lic teacher. He proclaimed the same lofty ideal as was 

 embodied in the remark of Agassiz: 1 have no time to 



make money.' 

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"The wife of a professor in Yale, who knew and hon- 

 ored him, thus writes of his burial place: 'And now he 

 lies at rest under the live oaks and magnolias, and the 

 little plants he loved and knew so well will bloom above 

 him, and the stars he traced in their courses will shine 

 down upon him in the earth of his own well-beloved and 

 native land.' " 



To his work, the following tribute was paid by one of 

 his life-long friends, the Rev. C. C. Pinckney: "The 

 trees, the flowers, the shrubs, the grapes, the s^eds, the 

 fruit all engaged his scientific eye. From the scanty her- 

 bage on the seashore to the lofty firs of the AJJeghanies, 

 the vegetable kingdom was his familiar frieiaflj," 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



Gibbes, Lewis R. — "A Catalogue of the Phaenogam- 

 ous Plants of Columbia, S. C, and Its Vicinity." — 

 Pamphlet. 1835. 



— "Accentuation of Names in Natural History." Vol. 

 I, Proceedings Elliott Society. 1857. 



