American botanist (1810-1894).
Lewis Reeve Gibbes (August 14, 1810–November 21, 1894) was an American professor of mathematics, chemistry, physics, and astronomy at the College of Charleston. He is remembered for his Catalogue of the Phoenogamous Plants of Columbia, S.C., and Its Vicinity (1835) as well as his "Synoptical Table of the Chemical Elements," worked out between 1870 and 1874 and published in 1875. Gibbes was born in Charleston on August 14, 1810 to Ladson Gibbes and Maria Henrietta Drayton Gibbes, the eldest of their eight children. After attending grammar school in Charleston and Philadelphia, he attended pre-c