Gannett
HENRY, an American geographer; born in Bath, Me., Aug. 24, 1846; was graduated at the Lawrence Scientific School, in 1869; became geographer of the United States Geological Survey in 1882; was geographer of the 10th, 11th, and 12th censuses, and of those taken by the War Department in Cuba and Porto Rico in 1899. His publications include "Manual of Topographic Surveying"; "Statistical Atlases 10th and 11th Censuses"; "Dictionary of Altitudes"; "Commercial Geography"; etc. He died in 1914.
GANYMEDE (gan'i-mēd), in Greek mythology, the cup-bearer of Zeus.
According to Homer, he was the son of King Tros and the nymph Callirrhoë; or, according to others, of Laomedon, Ilus, or Erichthonius. The most beautiful of mortals, he attracted the notice of the king of the gods, who determined to make him his cup-bearer in succession to Hebe, and accordingly dispatched his eagle to carry him off to heaven. At a later period he was identified with the divinity who presided over the sources of the Nile. The Greek astronomers likewise placed him among stars, under the name of Aquarius ("the waterbearer") in allusion to his celestial function.