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Gleason

ELLIOTT PERRY, an American inventor; born in Westmoreland, N. H., June 27, 1821; received a common school education; was one of the first to manufacture gas burners; and invented the regulating argand burner, etc. He died in 1901.

Glebe

in the established Churches of England and Scotland, the land possessed as part of the revenue of an ecclesiastical benefice, usually along with a dwelling house.

Glentilt

a valley in Perthshire, Scotland; the deep narrow glen of the Tilt, which issues from Loch Tilt and runs 16 miles S. W. receiving the larger Tarf Water and Fender Burn, until at Blair- Athole it falls into the Garry. classic ground to the geologist, as having furnished evidence for the Huttonian or denudation theory. ry.

Glentilt is

Glisson's Capsule

in anatomy, a seat of Gila co.

Eastern railroad. In the neighborhood is the great Roosevelt reservoir, which It has a park, a library, and other public buildings. It is the center of an imporis the smelting of copper. Pop. (1910)

Globulin

crystallin, or vitellin, vite an with ether, and treating the residue GLOCKERITE chloride of sodium solution and precipitating with water.

Glockerite

a brown, ocher-yellow, brownish-black, pitch-black, or dullgreen mineral; massive, sparry, or earthy and stalactitic. Found in Hanover; also at Modum, in Norway.

Glockner

a mountain in Austria belonging to the Noric Alps, on the frontiers of the Tyrol, Carinthia, and Salzburg. It is 12,350 feet in height, and takes its name from the resemblance of the principal summit to a large bell.

Glogau

or GROSSGLOGAU, the capital of a district in Prussian Silesia, Germany, situated on the Oder, 60 miles northwest of Breslau, on the Oder river.

Here is located a second class fortress, built on an island in the river.

GLOUCESTER ally as a symptom of some other disease.

The tongue when inflamed often becomes too large for the mouth.

Glory Pea

a leguminous plant, native of the desert regions of Australia. It is a low straggling shrub with light-colored, hairy, pinnate leaves, and large, brilliant scarlet flowers, the standard or banner petal of which appears in the form of an elongated shield with a dark brown boss in the center.

Glow Worm

a beetle of which the male flies and does not shine, while the female shines and does not fly. It is from the latter sex, therefore, that the name glow worm has been derived. The phosphoric light is displayed at the tail of the insect.

Glumella

a name given by De Candolle and Desvaux to two bracts within the glumes of a grass; the other name being pale. In one of the bracts the heating

Glyceramic Acid

in chemistry, evaporating the filtered solution, adding a quarter of its volume of sulphuric acid