Wolcott Gibbs, an American chemist, born in New York, Feb. 21, 1822. He graduated at Columbia college in 1841, and studied chemistry under Prof. Hare at Philadelphia, and medicine at the New York college of physicians and surgeons, taking his degree in 1844. He then went to Europe, and studied under Liebig and Bammelsberg. On his return, in 1849, he was elected professor of chemistry and physics in the New York free academy. In 1863 he became professor in Harvard university, and lecturer on the application of science to the useful arts, which chair he still occupies. He was a member of the United States sanitary commission during the civil war, and was appointed by President Grant scientific commissioner to the Vienna exhibition in 1873. His writings relate exclusively to chemical and physical subjects. He has published about 50 papers, mainly in the American Journal of Science."