Gulian Cromelin Verplmck, an American author, born in New York, Aug. 6, 1786, died there, March 18, 1870. He graduated at Columbia college in 1801, studied law, and passed several years in European travel. In 1820 he became a member of the New York legislature, and not long afterward professor of the evidences of Christianity in the general Protestant Episcopal seminary in New York. From 1826 to 1834 he was a member of congress, and afterward several times of the state senate. He published " The State Triumvirate, a Political Tale," "Bucktail Bards," and "The Epistles of Brevet Major Pindar Puff" (1819), political pamphlets chiefly aimed at De Witt Clinton; " Essays on the Nature and Uses of the Various Evidences of Revealed Religion " (1824); nearly half of the annual in prose and verse called "The Talisman" (3 vols., 1827'30); " Discourses and Addresses on Subjects of American History, Arts, and Literature" (1833); an edition of Shakespeare (3 vols., 1844-'7); and several college orations, the best known of which is " The American Scholar," delivered at Union college in 1836. He prepared also for 15 years nearly all the annual reports of the commissioners of emigration, of which board he was president.