GILMAN, DANIEL Corr (1831— ). An Ameri can educator, born in Norwich, Conn. He came from a New Hampshire family which migrated from Norfolk, England, in 1638. After gradua tion at Yale in 1852, he studied and traveled in Europe. In 1855 he entered the service of his alma maker and remained in it until 1872, as librarian, professor of physical and political geography, and secretary of the Sheffield Scien tific School. He then was made president of the University of California. In 1875 he was called to the presidency of the newly founded Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, and retained this office for twenty-five years. After his resig nation he was chosen president of the Carne gie Institution of Washington. lie also served as president of many educational and philan thropic associations, and received many honorary diplomas. President Cleveland appointed him one of the commissioners to determine the true boundaries of Venezuela; he served as one of the Charter Commission of Baltimore; sand was made president of the National Civil Service Re form League, and of the American Oriental So ciety. As a member of three boards—the Pea
body, the Slater, and the General Education Board—he became active in the promotion of education at the South. His publications include a large number of reports and magazine articles, an introduction to Lieber's minor writings, an introduction to De Tocqueville's Democracy in America, a volume of speeches and essays en titled University Problems, a small volume on Science and Letters in Yale, and a memoir of James Dwight Dana, the geologist. To the American Statesmen Series he contributed a memoir of President Monroe. In 1901 he became one of the three general editors of the New Inter national Encyclopaedia.