APPENDIX b: biographical sketches. 693 



Conkling, Alfred Ronald. 



Born in New York, September 28, 1850. Graduated from Yale in 1870. For a 

 short time connected with U. S. Geological Survey under Hayden. 

 Conrad, Timothy Abbott. Conchologist and paleontologist. 



Bom near Trenton, N. J., June 21, 1803; died in Trenton, N. J., August 9, 1877. 

 By profession a printer. Geologist and paleontologist of New York State, 1827-1842. 

 Prepared official reports on the fossils collected by the Wilkes Exploring Expedi- 

 tion, the expedition of Lieutenant Lynch to the Dead Sea, and the Mexican Bound- 

 ary Survey. He also published an important work on the fossil shells of the Tertiary 

 formation of North America. 



Biogr. Wm, H. Dall. Proc. Biolog. Soc. of Washington, IV, 1886-88, pp. 112-114. 

 Cook, George Hammell. Geologist. 



Born in Hanover, N. J., January 5, 1818; died in New Brunswick, N. J., Septem- 

 ber 22, 1889. In 1839-1842, tutor or adjunct professor and 1842-1846, senior professor 

 at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1848-1851, connected with Albany Acad- 

 emy at Albany, N. Y. In 1853, professor of chemistry and natural science at Rut- 

 gers College, New Brunswick, N. J. In 1854-1856, assistant geologist of State of New 

 Jersey. In 1864, made State geologist, a position which he continued to lill till time 

 of his death. 



Biogr. James Neilson. Address before faculty of Rutgers College, 1890. 

 Cooper, Thomas. Educator. 



Born in London, England, October 22, 1759; died in Columbia, S. C, May 11, 

 1840. Came to America in 1795 and served for brief periods as professor of chem- 

 istry and allied sciences and law in Dickinson College, University of Pennsylvania, 

 University of Virginia, and South Carolina College, becoming president of last named 

 in 1821 and serving until 1833. 



Biogr. History of Higher Education in South Carolina by Colyer"Meri weather. Bureau of 

 Education, Washn., 1889. 



Cope, Edward Drinker. Paleontologist. 



Born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 28, 1840; died in Philadelphia, April 12, 1897. 

 Vertebrate paleontologist. Professor of natural science at Haverford College, Pa., 

 1864-1867; connected with theU. S. Geological Surveys under Lieut. G. M. Wheeler, 

 1874, and Dr. F. V. Hayden. Curator of Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia, 1865-1873. Professor of geology, University of Pennsylvania, 1889. For many 

 years editor of the American Naturalist. 



Biogr. P. Frazer. Amer. Geol., XXVI, Aug., 1900. 



Cornelius, Elias. Clergyman. 



Born in Somers, N. Y., July 31, 1794; died in Hartford, Conn., February 12, 1832. 

 A clergyman who, in company with many others of his time, was interested in the 

 sciences. Wrote a little, but did no active work. 

 Biogr. Bela Hubbard. Nat. Cyclo. Am. Biogr, 1833. 



CoTTiNG, John Ruggles. Clergyman. 



Born in Acton, Mass., 1784; died in Milledgeville, Ga., October 18, 1868. A clergy- 

 man interested in science. Removed to Augusta, (la., in 1835, and was engaged by 

 private parties to make agricultural survey of Burke and Richmond counties. The 

 work was completed in 1836, and map and drawings deposited in the Medical College 

 at Augusta. Report published in 1836. State geologist of Georgia for two years. 

 Biogr. Am. Min. Jour., XLV, 1868. p. 141. 



Couthouy, Joseph Pitty. Conchologist. 



Born in Boston, Mass., January 6, 1808, of French extraction; shot on U. S. S. 

 ( 'hillicothe, off Grand Ecore, La., April 3, 1864, and died following day. In early life 

 shipped as sailor on his father's vessel. In 1836, became member of Boston Society 



