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land for five years and graduated at Bowdoin college in 1843. 
He also took a course in medicine as a science. The first year 
after graduation he was chosen to give a course of lectures on 
botany as applied to agriculture and mechanic arts to the 
senior class of Bowdoin college. From 1843 ^o 1849 ^^ ^^^ 
principal of Brunswick female seminary. In 1849 '""e was prin- 
cipal of Hampden academy, Maine. In 1849-50 he was a 
member of the state board of education of Maine, and was 
school commissioner of Hampden. 
From 1845 to 1850 inclusive he was teacher and lecturer at 
various teachers institutes of Maine, including the counties of 
Cumberland, Waldo, Lincoln, Aroostook, Penobscot, etc. In 
1849 ^^ was invited to take charge of Farrington academy, and 
in 1850 to take charge of Oldtown academy. In 185 1 he was 
re-elected school commissioner of Hampden county for three 
xears. In 185 1 he was also invited to take charge of Schoharie 
academy in New York. In 185 1 he was elected a member of 
the board of education of Hampden by a vote of 34 to 2. 
In October, 185 1, G. C. Swallow was elected to fill the chair 
of chemistry, geology and mineralogy in the imiversity of the 
state of Missouri. On the 8th day of December he started 
for Missouri and reached Columbia in the latter part of the 
month. January i, 1852, he began his labors in the state 
university, and on the 14th gave his first lecture to the class. 
He speaks well of the laboratory equipment at that time and 
praises his class. 
April 2, 1853, Swallow was appointed state geologist of 
Missouri, and on the 6th of June he resigned his place in the 
state university. 
In 1856 he declined the appointment of professor of chem- 
istry and natural sciences in Westminister college, at Fulton, 
Mo. In 1857-58 he acted as professor of chemistry and nat- 
ural sciences in the university of Missouri, dividing his time 
with the geological survey. In 1861 the state geological sur- 
vey was discontinued. In 1864 G. C. Swallow was assistant 
geologist of Kansas, and in 1865 he was appointed state geolo- 
gist of Kansas, and was for two years engaged on the Kansas 
survey. From 1867 to 1870 he was superintendent of mining 
operations at Highland, Montana. 
In 1870 Swallow was again employed by the university of 
