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Rh and in France. On his return to Canada in 1758 he commanded a troop at the battle of Carillon, and in 1759 at that of Montmorency^ distinguish- ing himself in both engagements. After the capitu- lation of Montreal in 1760 he went to France, but returned to Canada in 1764. He took an active part in the defence of Montreal against Gen. Rich- ard Montgomery, and signed the capitulation of that city. While remaining faithful to Great Brit- ain, he became dissatisfied with her treatment of Canada, and in 1784 was elected president of the committee that was organized in Montreal to draw up and present to the government a list of griev- ances. He was active in the agitation for an elect- ive chamber, and continued it until the constitu- tion of 1791 was granted. He also labored for higher education, and succeeded in having the Col- lege of Saint Raphael established at Montreal. He also endeavored to prevent the alienation of the Eroperty of the Jesuits, but without effect. He ad been previously made a judge, and held this office till his death. — His sOn, Louis, b. in Mon- treal, 28 June, 1768 ; d. there in February, 1840, studied law, and received his commission as notary in 1801. He served in the war of 1812, and rose to the grade of major of the 5th battalion of Cana- dian militia. On the conclusion of the war he was appointed colonel and requested by the governor, Sir James Kempt, to adopt measures for reorganiz- ing the militia of Montreal. To this task he de- voted himself so energetically up to 1830 that his health was seriously impaired. In 1831, he was named a member of the council by William IV. This nomination was received with great favor by the French Canadians, who considered Mr. Guy as their representative. He was elected to nearly every public office within their gift.

GUY, Seymour Joseph, artist, b. in Green- wich, England, 16 Jan., 1824. He studied under Ambrosini Jerome in London, and came to New York in 1854, where he still (1887) resides. He be- gan to paint portraits, and met with success, but afterward turned his attention to genre pictures. He was elected associate of the National academy in 1861, academician in 1865, and was one of the original members of the American society of painters in water-colors in 1866. His subjects are chiefly scenes and incidents drawn from child-life. He exhibited at the academy " The Good Sister " (1868); "After the Shower," "More Free than Welcome," and a portrait of Charles L. Elliott (1869); "The Little Stranger" and "Plaving on- the Jew's Harp " (1870) ; " The Street Fire " (1871) ; "Fixing for School" (1874); " The Little Orange- Girl "(1875); "Cash on Hand" (1877); and "See Saw, Margery Daw " (1884).

GUY, William, clergyman, b. in England in 1689; d. near Charleston, S. C, in 1751. He was appointed in 1712, by the Society for the propaga- tion of the gospel, assistant minister in St. Philip's church, Charleston, and the same year was elected minister of St. Helena parish, Port Royal island. Having received only deacon's orders, he went, in 1713, to England, where he was advanced to the priesthood, and was sent back by the society as missionary in the same parish. His field of labor was very large, and included the lands occupied by the Yamassee Indians. Mr. Guy was unwearied in the discharge of his duties, but when the Yamas- see war began, in 1715, he narrowly escaped with his life by taking refuge on board an English ship that was lying in the river, bound to Charleston. He was next sent as missionary to Narragansett, R. I., where his labors were very effective. After the lapse of two years— from 17*17 till 1719— finding that his health was seriously affected by a northern climate, he was transferred, at his own request, to South Carolina. He became rector of St. Andrew's church, about thirteen miles from Charleston, and continued there until his death. Mr. Guy was highly esteemed by the society under whose auspices he labored, as was shown by their appointing him in 1725 their attorney in the prov- ince, to receive and recover all bequests and dona- tions made to them, and to give acquittances.

GUYOT, Arnold, geographer, b. in Boudevilliers, Neuchatel, Switzerland, 28 Sept., 1807; d. in Princeton, N. J., 8 Feb., 1884. He was educated at Chaux-de-Fonds, and then at the college of Neu- chatel, where he was the classmate of Leo Lesque- reux. In 1825 he went to Germany, and resided in Carlsruhe with the parents of Alex- ander Braun, the botanist, where he met Louis Agas- siz. From Carls- ruhe he went to Stuttgart, and there studied at the gymnasium, returning to Neu- chatel in 1827. He then determined to become a min- ister, and in 1829 started for Berlin to attend lectures in the university. While pursuing his studies he also attended lec- tures on philosophy and natural science. His lei- sure was spent in collecting the shells and plants of the country, and he was introduced by Hum- boldt to the Berlin botanical garden, where op- portunities for examining the flora of the tropics was afforded him. In 1835 he received the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Berlin, and pub- lished a thesis on " The Natural Classification of Lakes." He was then a private tutor in Paris for four years, and in the summer of 1838, at Agassiz's request, visited the Swiss glaciers, and communir cated the results of his six weeks' investigation to the Geological society of France. The laminated structure of ice in the glaciers was originally pointed out by him in this paper, and his discovery was subsequently confirmed by Agassiz, Forbes, and others. In 1839 he returned to Neuchatel, and became the colleague of Agassiz, as professor of history and physical geography in the college there. The academy in Neuchatel was suspended by the grand revolutionary council of Geneva in 1848, and, being urged by Agassiz, Guyot came to this coun- try' in that year, and settled in Cambridge, where he was soon afterward invited to deliver a course of lectures at the Lowell institute. These, trans- lated by Prof. Cornelius C. Felton. were published under the title of "Earth and Man " (Boston, 1853), and gained for him a wide reputation. The Massa- chusetts board of education retained his services as lecturer on geography and methods of instruction to the normal schools and teachers' institutes. He was occupied with this work until his appointment, in 1854, to the chair of physical geography and geology at Princeton, which he retained until his death, being for some time senior professor. He was also for several years lecturer on physical geography in the State normal school in Trenton, N. J., and from 1861 till 1866 lecturer in the Prince-