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Globe Fishes

the family Gymnodontidæ, of which the chief genera are axis on which the globe revolves. At brass meridian receives the ends of the in a plane containing the earth's center. the true horizon of the earth which lies brass representing the horizon; that is, GLOBE FISHES, the family Gymno- horizontal, is a broad ring of wood or right angles to this, and consequently men beneath the skin, they became nearly GLINKA, MICHAEL IVANOVITCH, operas "Life for the Czar" and "Russian in St. Petersburg. Several songs and the May 20, 1804; studi in St. Petersburg. Several songs and the operas "Life for the Czar" and "Russian studied under John Field and Ludmilla," all in Russian, have received high praise from critics. He died in Berlin, Feb. 15, 1857.

GLINKA, VICH, a Russian poet; born in Smolensk in 1774. He entered the military service and rose to the rank of major, when he SERGIUS NICOLAIEretired. His literary work was devoted mainly to the young and their training. "Readings for Children," "History Russia for the Use of Boys and Girls," and similar books, are highly esteemed.

He also composed a few plays in verse, edited the "Russian Messenger," and translated Young's "Night Thoughts."

He died in Moscow in 1847.

Vol. IV-Cyc-V ry of ogy, a light-colored calcareous mud in siliceous sponges, and often varied fauna of Mollusca, Crustacea, and and abounding in Globigerinæ, rich in GLOBIGERINA (-īnā) MUD, in geolplaces in the Atlantic 3,000 fathoms deep, ften supporting a Echinoderms. albuminous substance first obtained from thus obtained is a yellowish transparent mass, which swells up and dissolves in water; the solution becomes opaline at 73° and coagulates at 93°. It can be obtained by treating the yolks of egg the crystalline lens of the eye. Globulin

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