Gunning

(William D.), American scientific profe or, b. Blooming burg, Ohio. Graduated at Oberlin and studied under Aga iz. He wrote Life History of our Planet , Chicago, 1876, and contributed to The Open Court . Died Greeley , Colorado, 8 March, 1888. Günst (Dr. Frans Christ i a an), Dutch writer and publisher, b. Amsterdam, 19 Aug. 1823. He was intended for a Catholic clergyman; studied at Berne, where he was promoted ’47. Returning to Holland he became bookseller and editor at Amsterdam. He was for many years secretary of the City Theatre. Günst contributed to many periodicals, and became a friend of Junghuhn, with whom he started De Dageraad , the organ of the Dutch Freethinkers, which he edited from ’55 to ’67. He usually contributed under pseudonyms as “Mephistho” or (∴). He was for many years President of the Independent Lodge of Freemasons, “ Post Nubila Lux ,” and wrote on Adon Hiram, the oldest legend of the Freemasons . He also wrote Wijwater voor Roomsch Katholieken (Holy Water for the Roman Catholics); De Bloedgetuigen der Spaansche Inquisitie (The Martyrs of the Spanish Inquisition, ’63); and Heidenen en Jezuieten, eene vergelijking van hunne zedeleer (Pagans and Jesuits, a comparison of their morals, ’67). In his life and conversation he was frater gaudens . Died 29 Dec. 1886.