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 666 GENDEIN GENESEE Mass. In 1851 his violins obtained the prize medal of the world's fair in London. In 1852 he removed to New York, where he has since lived. Vuillaume and other makers of violins in Europe adopted the practice of giv- ing a pseudo-antiquity to their wood by a chemical process, in order to gain for their instruments a desirable quality of tone ; but wood thus treated soon loses its resonance, and after a time the instruments become worth- less. Gemunder, rejecting this method, has succeeded with natural wood in producing violins which fulfil every requirement, and in respect of volume, power, equality, and quick- ness of tone, are fully equal to the work of the best old masters. In the model and finish of his instruments, and especially in the var- nish, he is exceedingly successful. He repro- duces faithfully the distinctive characteristics of the old Italian violins, so that his instru- ments are often taken for genuine productions of Cremona. One called the Kaiser violin, finished in 1873 and exhibited in the great ex- position at Vienna, was pronounced an Italian violin of the classic period, because it was be- lieved impossible to produce so fine a tune in a new instrument. GENDRIN, Augnste Nicolas, a French physician, born at Chateaudun, Dec. 6, 1796. He received a doctor's diploma in 1821, and published on this occasion Du traitement de le ~blennor- rhagie, relating to his new method of inject- ing opium. His Recherches sur la nature et sur les causes prochaines des fievres (2 vols., 1823), and his Histoire anatomique des inflam- mations (2 vols., 1826), which latter has been translated into German, won academical prizes, as did some of his subsequent writings, the most renowned being his Traite philosophique de medecine pratique (3 vols., 1838-'41). After having been attached to various hospitals, he was from 1836 to 1866 the principal physician of La Pitie. During the June insurrection of 1832 he incurred odium for having, as alleged, reported to the authorities political offenders on whom he had happened to attend profession- ally; and his Memoire medico-legal, showing that the prince of Conde" did not die by his own hands in 1830, but by those of assassins, also gave rise to unfavorable comments, which he endeavored in vain to combat. GENDRON, Angnste, a French painter, born in Paris in 1818. He studied under Delaroche and in Italy, and became famous (1844-'6) by his pic- ture representing Les willis, or maidens resus- citated from their graves according to a Bohe- mian legend, and dancing during a whole night. His "Dante commented upon by Boccaccio " (1844), his "Sylphs" (1852), "Titania" (1853), and many other works, have since been ex- hibited. He excels in historical, fantastic, and fairy delineations, and has also painted on por- celain for the manufactory at Sevres, and re- markable decorations for the palais d'Orsay. GENELLI, Bonaventara, a German painter, born in Berlin about 1798, died in Weimar, Nov. 13, 1868. He studied under his father, who was a landscape painter, and at the acad- emy in Berlin, and during ten years in Italy, chiefly in Rome. He was subsequently em- ployed in classical decorations at Leipsic till 1836, when he removed to Munich. In 1859 he was invited to Weimar by the grand duke, and spent there the rest of his life. His most famous works are "Lot's Entry into Zoar," and aquarels illustrating JEsop, Homer, Apollo, Sappho, Dante, the life of a witch, and the life of a rake. His later works are chiefly oil paintings relating to mythological and classi- cal subjects, upon which he brought to bear a glowing imagination and great ideality. The publication of some of his later paintings was begun in- 1870 in a work entitled Satura. His brother HANS CHBISTIAN, born in Berlin, Dec. 3, 1823, has published several works relating to the fine arts, and excels as a draughtsman and architect. His son GAMILLO, who died in 1867, gave promise of being a good painter ; and his daughter GABEIELE is a popular actress. GENESEE, a river of western New York, rises in Potter co., Pa., within a few yards of the head waters of the Alleghany and the north branch of the Susquehanna, flows N. W. and N. E. through Alleghany, Wyoming, Living- ston, and Monroe counties, N. Y., and falls into Lake Ontario 7m. N. of Eochester. Its length is about 145 m. It is navigable from Lake Ontario to the N. line of Eochester. The mouth, protected by two fine piers, forms a good harbor, which gives rise to the vil- lage of Charlotte, on the W. side. The river abounds in beautiful scenery, especially in cata- racts. In Livingston co.,. near Portage, are three falls within a distance of two miles, which are respectively 60, 90, and 110 ft. high ; and for several miles below these the stream flows between perpendicular banks 400 ft. high. At the S. line of Eochester commences a series of rapids, which terminate in the centre of the city in a sheer fall of 96 ft., called Genesee falls. This was the scene of Sam Patch's last leap. Six miles from the mouth of the river is a broken fall of 84 ft., by which the stream reaches the level of the lake. The Genesee is tapped above th e rapids to feed the Erie canal, which at Eochester crosses it by a fine limestone aqueduct of nine arches, each of 50 ft. span. The Genesee Valley canal, commencing at Eochester, follows the course of the river for a considerable distance, locks into it at Mt. Morris, and crosses it at Portage by an aqueduct. The Buffalo branch of the Erie railway has a trestle bridge near the same place, 800 ft. long and 234 ft. high. GENESEE. I. A W. county of New Yorl drained by Tonawanda creek ; area, about 48( sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 21,562. The surface almost level, and the soil, consisting chiefly of a very sandy loam, is well suited both to graii and pasturage. Salt springs exist in sever places, and iron, limestone, and water cement are obtained. The county is traversed by th(