The New International Encyclopædia/Conn, Herbert William

CONN, Herbert William (1859—). An American zoölogist and bacteriolgist, born at Fitchburg, Mass. He took his baccalaureate degree at the Boston University and his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University, and soon afterwards became professor of biology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. From 1889 to 1897 he was director of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. He is considered an authority on the bacteriology of dairy products, in connection with which he has published many papers, usually under the auspices of the Agricultural Station at Storrs, Conn. His works include: Evolution of To-day (1886); The Living World (1891); The Study of Germ-Life (1897); Classification of Dairy Bacteria (1899); The Method of Evolution (1900).