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Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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vapor for the snow ofwhich they arc made. For the structure andphysics of glaciers, see Agassiz, Systeme Gla-ciale; J, D. Forbes, Travels in the Alps ; andNorway and Its Glaciers ; Tyndall, Glaciers of the Alps. John Muir, Geologist, Explorer, and Naturalist. Gladden, Washington, American Congre-gational clergyman: b. Pottsgrove, Pa., 11 Feb.1836. He was graduated at Williams Col-lege in 1859; ordained in the CongregationalChurch, and after several other pastorates be-came pastor of the First Congregational Churchin Columbus, Ohio, in :882. He is widelyknown as a writer on social reforms. Hispublications include: Plain Thoughts on theArt of Living* (1868) ; Workingmen andTheir Employers (1876) : The ChristianLeague of Connecticut (1883); Things Newand Old (1884); The Young Men and theChurches (1885); Applied Christianity(1887): Parish Problems (1888); BurningQuestions (1889): Who Wrote the Bible(1891); Tools and the Man (1893); SocialFacts and Forces (1897); Art and Morality GLACIERS.
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