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Guy, Jean-Eudes, approximately 1933-

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  • approximately 1933-

Jean-Eudes Guy was a Montreal architect, involved in technical reports and corrective maintenance of Habitat ’67. He earned his BSc (Arch.) at McGill University in 1957 and his M.Sc. (Arch.) at Columbia University, New York, where he also earned the first Voorhees, Walker, Smith, Smith & Haines Fellowship. In 1963, he became the 6th chairman of the Junior Associates of The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. In 1975, he joined the architectural practice consisted solely of partners that graduated from the McGill University School of Architecture. Its name changed over the years; e. g. Sankey Javosky Werleman Guy Architects (1975); Werleman & Guy Architectes (1985), and Werleman Guy McMahon Architectes (1985).

Guyot, A. (Arnold), 1807-1884

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  • 1807-1884

Arnold Henri Guyot was born on September 28, 1807, in Boudevilliers, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

He was a Swiss-born American geologist, geographer, educator, and author. He studied at the College of Neuchâtel and the University of Berlin. In 1838, under the influence of the famed naturalist-geologist Louis Agassiz, he took up the study of the structure and motion of glaciers. He became a professor of history and physical geography at the Neuchâtel Academy in 1839. In 1848, Guyot settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and lectured on geography and teaching methods for the Massachusetts Board of Education. In 1854, he became Professor of Geology and Physical Geography at Princeton University. He developed topographical maps of the Appalachian and Catskill mountains. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1867. His extensive meteorological observations led to the establishment of the United States Weather Bureau, and his “Meteorological and Physical Tables” (4th ed., 1887) were long standard. His published works include “The Earth and Man” (1849) and “Creation, or the Biblical Cosmogony in the Light of Modern Science” (1884). The building housing the Department of Geosciences at Princeton is named Guyot Hall in his honour. He is the namesake of several geographical features, including Guyot Glacier in Alaska, The Guyot Crater, Mount Guyot on the North Carolina and Tennessee border, and a different Mount Guyot in New Hampshire, as well as Mount Guyot on the Rocky Mountain Continental Divide in Colorado.

In 1867, he married Sarah "Saddie" Doremus Haines (1834–1916). He died on February 8, 1884, in Princeton, New Jersey.

Gwillim, Elizabeth, 1763-1807

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  • 1763-1807

Hereford-born Lady Elizabeth Gwillim (née Symonds) was an artist whose watercolors of Indian birds preceded John James Audubon’s bird paintings by about twenty years and are equally detailed and natural. Married in 1784 to lawyer Henry Gwillim, who was knighted in 1801, she accompanied her husband to Madras, India (modern-day Chennai) that same year, together with her younger sister, Mary Symonds. Following the defeat of Tipu Sultan in 1799, which secured South India for the ‘Company Raj’, Henry took the position of Puisne Judge in the Madras High Court. Elizabeth and Mary were prolific letter writers and their correspondence with family and friends in England (now in the British Library MSS Eur C240) includes descriptions of Indian culture and British life in India. During her six years in India, Elizabeth painted some 200 works, many life-sized. As well as birds, she also painted botanical subjects. Elizabeth Gwillim’s drawings of birds have been compared to those of her near contemporary John James Audubon (1). Her botanical drawings were also praised in Curtis’ Botanical Magazine (Sims 1804), which noted the ‘unusual elegance and accuracy’ of her work. Elizabeth Gwillim studied botany with the eminent Madras botanist Dr Johann Rottler (1749-1836), who named a magnolia after her, Gwillimia. She used her garden as an experimental farm, testing delicate northern plants like parsley, mint, thyme and strawberries (the quintessential English fruit) in the damp heat of Madras, and collecting seeds of the local flora for commercial nurseries in Fulham and Brompton. She was hailed as ‘the patroness of the science in that Presidency’ (Sims, Botanical Magazine, 1807), an acknowledgement of her role in an enterprise whose study has to date focused on male botanists like Roxburgh and Heyne. Gwillim died in India at the age of 44 of unknown causes.

Gwyn, Norman B.

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