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Q ARM AN, Samuel, naturalist, was born in Indiana county, Pa., June 5, 184G; son of Benja" ruin and Sarah Ann (Griffith) Garman. He was graduated from the State Normal university, Normal, 111., in 1870 and was principal of the Mississippi state normal school at Holly Springs, 1870-71; professor of natural sciences at Lake Forest seminary, 111., 1871-72; studied under Louis Agassiz, 1873-73; and was assistant in lierpetology and ichthyology in the museum of comparative zoology, Cambridge, Mass., 1873. He made a number of geological explorations in the Rocky mountains and the Sierra Nevada, in the West Indies and in South and Central Amer- ica. He was elected a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science; of the Royal geographical society, London; of the Boston natural history society; of the Society zoologique de France; of the Boston scientific society, corresponding member of the Zoological society of London and of the Societe scientifique du Chili; member of the British association for the advancement of science; of the American fisheries society; of the Society of American naturalists; of the American economical associa- tion, and of the American statistical association. He received from Harvard the honorary degrees of S.B. in 1898 and A.M. in 1899. He is the author of: The Bepliles and Batrachians of North America (1883); The Septiles of Bermuda (1884); A Living Species of Cladodont Shark (1885); The Lateral Canal System of Selachia and Holocephala (1888); The Discoboli (1892); T!ie Cyprinodonts (1895); The Beep Sea Fishes (1899), and mono- graphs on natural history.

QARNET, Henry Highland, clergyman, was born in New Market, Md., Dec. 23, 1815; son of George Trusty, a slave, whose fatlier, called Joseph Trusty, was brought from the western coast of Africa and sold into slavery in Maryland. In 182-t George Trusty escaped with his family to New Hope, Berks county. Pa., and from there removed to New York city the following year and took the name of Garnet. Henrj' attended the New York free school No. 1 and subsequently went to sea. In 1829 he lost his right leg and re- turning to New York city he became a student at the high school for colored youth in 1831. Afterward he attended Canaan, N.H., academy and was graduated from Oneida institute, Whitestown, N.Y., in 1840. He then removed to Troy, N.Y., where he taught school and con- ducted religious meetings. In 1841 he was or- dained a ruling elder of the Presbyterian church, the following year was licensed to preach and in 1843 became first pastor of the Liberty street Presbyterian church, Troy. He held this charge for nearly ten years and at the same time pub- lished the weekly Clarion. In 1850 he went t"

England where he lectured on slavery and in 1851 was a delegate to the peace congress at Frankfort, Germany. While abroad he connected himself with the United Presbyterian church in Scotland and was sent by that society as mission- ary to Jamaica in 1852. He returned to the United States in 1853 and became pastor of the Shiloh Presbj'terian church in New York city. In 1861 he made a second lecture tour in England as president of the African civilization society. During the civil war he volunteered as chaplain of the colored troops on Riker"s Island, and was chaplain of the 20th, 26th and 31st regiments of colored soldiers until they went to the front. He was pastor of a Presbyterian church in Washington, D.C., 1864-69; president of Avery college, 1869-70; and again pastor of the Shiloh church in New York city, 1870-81. He was- ajjpointed by President Garfield U.S. minister and consul-general to Liberia and entered upon the duties of that oflice on Dec. 23, 1881, but in a few months he was overcome by the climate. In 1841 he was married to Julia Williams and their daughter, Mrs. Mary Highland Garnet Barbosa, under the auspices of a New York society, or- ganized in 1880 at Brewersville, Liberia, a school for native girls which was subsequently endowed in honor of her father. He died in Monrovia, Liberia, Feb. 13, 1882.

GARNETT, Alexander Yelverton Peyton, phj'sician, was born in Essex county, Va., Sept. 20, 1819; son of Muscoe and Maria (Battaile) Garnett; grandson of Muscoe Garnett; andgi-eat- grandson of James Garnett of Essex county, Va. He was graduated from the medical depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1841 and in the same year became assistant surgeon, U.S.N. He was surgeon, U.S.N., 1848-50, and held the chair of clinical medicine in the National medical college at Washington, D.C., 1850-61. On the secession of Virginia in 1861 he removed to Richmond, Va., where he became a member of the examining board of surgeons for the Confed- erate army, and was afterward surgeon in chief to the military hospital at Richmond. He was family physician to President JefTerson Davis and his cabinet imtil 1866, when he returned to Washington, D.C., and was re elected to the chair of clinical medicine in the Medical college. He resigned in 1870 and became professor emeritus. He was a vice-president of the American medical association in 1885. He was married in 1848 to Mary E., eldest daughter of Henry A. Wise. His published ■writings consist of numeroua medical papers and some addresses. He died at Rehoboth Beach, Del., July 11, 1888.

GARNETT, James Mercer, representative, was born at Elm wood, Essex county, Va., June a. 1770; son of Muscoe and Grace Fenton (Mercer)