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=Comegys, Benjamin Bartis.= _Del._, 1819-1901. A banker of
Philadelphia. Tour Round My Library, and Other Papers; Advice to Young
Men and Boys; A Primer of Ethics; Talks with Boys and Girls; How to Get
On, a Book for Boys; Turn Over a New Leaf; An Order of Worship; Old
Stories with New Lessons. _Hou. Rev._
=Comfort, Mrs. Anna [Manning].= _N. J._, 1845- ----. Wife of G. F.
Comfort, _infra_. A physician of Syracuse, who has written Woman’s
Education and Woman’s Health, a reply to Dr. Clarke’s once famous Sex
in Education.
=Comfort, George Fisk.= _N. Y._, 1833- ----. A professor at Syracuse
University since 1872. He has published a series of German text-books
and The Land Troubles in Ireland. _Har._
=Comly, John.= _Pa._, 1774-1850. A Pennsylvania educator among the
Friends, who prepared a speller that was phenomenally popular, and also
a grammar and other text-books. _See Journal of John Comly of Ryberry,
1853._
=Comstock= [kŭm´stŏk], =Cyrus Ballou.= _Ms._, 1831- ----. A colonel of
the Engineer Corps in the United States army, and brevet major-general
of U. S. Volunteers, who has made a number of important government
surveys. Notes on European Surveys; Surveys of the Northwestern Lakes;
Primary Triangulation of United States Lake Survey.
=Comstock, John Henry.= _Wis._, 1849- ----. A professor of entomology
and general invertebrate zoölogy at Cornell University. Notes on
Entomology; Report on Cotton Insects; Introduction to Entomology.
=Comstock, John Lee.= _Ct._, 1789-1858. An educational compiler of
Hartford, among whose many scientific text-books are The Elements of
Chemistry; Introduction to Mineralogy; System of Natural Philosophy;
History of the Precious Minerals; Natural History of Quadrupeds. He
wrote also A History of the Greek Revolution.
=Comstock, Theodore Bryant.= _O._, 1849- ----. A geologist of
distinction, professor in Illinois University. Outlines of General
Geology; Classification of Rocks.
=Conant, Alban Jasper.= _Vt._, 1821- ----. A naturalist who was for
some time curator in the University of Wisconsin. Footprints of
Vanished Races in the Valley of the Mississippi.
=Conant, Mrs. Hannah O’Brien [Chaplin].= _Ms._, 1809-1865. Wife of T.
J. Conant, _infra_, and daughter of J. Chaplin, _supra_. An Oriental
scholar who assisted her husband in his literary work, made important
translations from the German of Strauss, Neander, and Uhden, and was
the author of History of the English Bible; Popular History of English
Bible Translation; The Earnest Man, a sketch of Judson the missionary.
=Conant, Mrs. Helen Peters [Stevens].= _Ms._, 1839-1899. Wife of S. S.
Conant, _infra_. A magazinist of New York city. The Butterfly Hunters;
Primers of German and Spanish Literature. _Har._
=Conant, Samuel Stillman.= _Me._, 1831-1885. Son of T. J. Conant,
_infra_. A journalist of New York, managing editor of Harper’s Weekly,
1869-85, and translator of Lermontoff’s Circassian Boy.
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