GARCIA DE SAN VICENTE, Nicolas, Mexi-call educator, born in Acaxochitlan, 28 November, 1793 ; died in Toluca, 23 December 1845. He entered the Seminary of Puebla in 1809, and then studied civil and canonical law in the University of Mexico, where he was graduated in 1818. He was then appointed professor of etymology in Puebla, and in 1821 was ordained priest and obtained the chair of grammar and geography. In 1823 he was elected deputy for the district of Tulaneingo to the congress of Puebla. During 1828 and 1829 he was president of the Society for the protection of public instruction, which he had founded. In 1839 and 1840 he was professor of Latin and Spanish grammar at the College of Tulancingo, where he continued till his death. He wrote a great number of text-books for schools, nearly all in verse. These include '" Extracto de Ortografia" (Mexico, 1830) ; "Geografia de los Nifios" and "Cosmografia" (1839)" "Geografia Fisica y Politica" (1840) ; "Ortologia segdn Sicilia" (1843); " Reglas de Etimologia y Sintaxis Castellana" (1845). He left unfinished " Lecciones de Geometria," and also translated from the French the Bible of Venee, and from the Italian the "History of California," by Clavijero.