Guyot, ARNOLD

Guyot, ARNOLD, geographer, was born in Switzerland in 1807, took the degree of Ph.D. at Berlin in 1835, was the colleague of Agassiz at Neuchâtel in 1839-48, and in 1848 accompanied him to America. Guyot delivered a course of lectures at the Lowell Institute, which were translated by Professor Felton (q.v.), and published as Earth and Man (1853). In 1854 he was appointed professor of Physical Geography and Geology at Princeton, where he died, 8th February 1884. He had the management of the meteorological department of the Smithsonian Institution, where he more than once delivered courses of lectures, and in connection with which he published Meteorological and Physical Tables (revised ed. 1884). Guyot was joint-editor of Johnson's Cyclopædia (1874-77), and his other works include several biographies, a Treatise on Physical Geography (1873), and a series of geographies and wall-maps which are in general use in American schools.