The New International Encyclopædia/Worcester, Dean Conant

WORCESTER, Dean Conant (1866—). An American zoölogist and writer, born at Thetford, Vt., and educated at the University of Michigan. While still an undergraduate he visited the Philippine Islands as a member of the Steere scientific expedition (1887-88), and in 1890 returned to that archipelago as one of the leaders of the Menage expedition. He remained there three years, studying not only the fauna of the islands, but their topography, history, and inhabitants. From 1893 he was instructor in zoölogy at the University of Michigan, and in 1895 was made assistant professor and curator of the zoölogical museum. In January, 1899, he was appointed a member of the United States Philippine Commission. His publications include various papers on the birds and mammals of the Philippines, several articles on political and social conditions in the islands, and The Philippine Islands and Their People (1898), a work of great value.