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John Muir (1838–1914)
Muir, John. An American naturalist and explorer; born at Dunbar, Scotland, 1838; died on Dec. 24, 1914. He discovered Glacier Bay and the Muir Glacier in Alaska in 1879. Besides contributing a number of illustrated papers to magazines, and editing Picturesque California, he published ‘The Mountains of California’ (1894), a valuable and charming work; ‘Our National Parks.’ (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).