Gliddon

Gliddon, GEORGE ROBINS, Egyptologist, was born in Devonshire in 1809, and resided for many years in Egypt, where his father was United States consul at Alexandria, and he himself became vice-consul. He afterwards lectured in America on Egyptian antiquities, and died at Panama in 1857. His works include, besides his Ancient Egypt (1850), which was very popular in America, Types of Man-kind (Phila. 1854), written in conjunction with Dr J. C. Nott, and containing papers by Agassiz and others, and Indigenous Races of the Earth (1857), with Dr Nott and others.