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natural history at Cleveland in 1875, and was professor of general and economic geology in Cornell university, 1875-79. He conducted an expedition to British America in 1877, was instruc- tor in the Harvard summer school of geology, 1878, and aid on the Kentucky geological survey, 1878. He then went to Silverton, Col., where he acted as general manager of a mining company, and built and managed exten- sive ore-sampling and concentrating works. He was professor of mining engineering and physics at the University of Illinois, 1885-89 ; was engaged in gold and siher work on the geological survey of Arkansas, 1887-88; and in charge of the central division of the geological survey of Texas, 1889-91. In 1891 he founded and became director of the Arizona scliool of mines, Tucson, Ariz. ; and in 1893 was made president of the University of Arizona, continuing also as director of the school of mines until 1895, when he became consulting mining engineer at Prescott, Ariz. He was also chosen general manager of the Prescott development syndicate, Glasgow, Scotland, and president, treasurer and general manager of the security mining and development company in Prescott, Ariz. In 1877 he served as chairman of the com- mittee on Yellowstone park and in 1886 as secre- tary of the section of geology and geography of the American association for the advancement of science. In 1893 he was vice-president of the national irrigation congress at Los Angeles, Cal. , and was a member of the executive committee of the trans-Mississippi congress, 1894-97. He was a director of the National educational associ- ation, 1895-97; was elected a member of the American institute of mining engineers in 1880 ; a member of the North of England institute of mining engineers; a member of the (British) Federated institution of mining and mechanical engineers ; was a founder of the Geological society of America, and fellow of the Amei'ican associa- tion for the advancement of science. He Avas state councillor of the American institute of civics, for Ohio, Illinois, Texas and Arizona, at different times; corresponding member of the New York academy of sciences, the Buffalo society of natural history, the Kirtland society of natural history, Cleveland, Ohio; a member of the National geographical society, Washington ; and one of the founders of the Western society of naturalists, and of the Illinois society of en-

gineers. He edited the San Juan ExpositoVf Eureka, Col., 1879-80, and was mining editor of the Silverton Democrat, 1882-83. He received the degree of D.Sc. from Cornell in 1886. He is the author of Beports on the Geology of Xorthu-estern Wyoming (1874) ; Outline of General Geology (1879) ; 3Iap of San Juan Cottnty, Colo. (1882) ; lieports on gold and silver, Arkansas survey, and on the central mineral region of Teo-as (1889) ; and of contribu- tions to the American Xaturalist, the American Journal of Science, and the Engineering and Mining^ JouriKiL

CONANT, Edward, educator, was born at Pomfret, Vt., May 10, 1829; son of Seth and Melvina (Perkins) Conant ; grandson of Jeremiah Conant of Bridgewater, Mass., and Pomfret, Vt. ; and a descendant of Roger Conant (1593-1679). He was educated at Thetford academy and at Dartmouth college, attending the latter 1852-54. In 1854 he became principal of the Woodstock (Ct. ) academy, and afterward held the same- position in the Royalton (Vt.) academy and the Burlington (Vt.) high school. In 1861 he became principal of the Orange county grammar school at Randolph, which during his administration was changed into a state normal school. Frora 1874 to 1880 he was state superintendent of edu- cation. He was principal of the state normal school at Johnson, 1881-84, returning in the- latter year to Randolph. He received the de- gree of A.M. from Middlebury college in 1866, and from the University of Vermont in 1867. He published A Few Hoots of English Words (1870) ; A Drill Book in the Elements of the English Lan- guage (1871) ; Conant's Vermont (1890) ; Vermont Historical Eeader (1895).

CONANT, Hannah O'Brien (Chaplin), author, was born in Dan vers, Mass., Feb. 5, 1809;. daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin, first president of Waterville college. She received a. liberal education and was married July 12, 1830, to the Rev. Thomas Jefferson Conant. In 1838 she became editor of the Mother's Journal, Utica, N.Y. Being a profound Oriental scholar she- greatly aided her husband in his translations. She is the author of Tlie Earnest Man, a biography of Dr. Adoniram Judson the missionarj- (1855) ;. Histoiy of English Bible Translations (1857) ; and translations of Strauss's Lea, or the Bctjitism in Jordan (1844) ; Neander's Commentaries on the Epistle of Paul to the Philippians, the Epistle of James and the first Epistle of John (1850-52) ; and Uhden's Xeic England Theocracy (1859). She died in Brooklyn. N.Y., Feb. 18, 1865.

CONANT, Helen Charlotte Peters Stevens, author, was born in Methuen, Mass., Oct. 9, 1839, daughter of Abiel and Charlotte (Peters) Stevens; and granddaughter of Abiel and Abigail (Archer)-