CONE, HUTCHINSON INGHAM, an American naval officer, born in Brooklyn in 1873. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1894. During the war with Spain he served on the U. S. S. "Baltimore." He was commander of the flotilla of torpedo boats on the voyage from Hampton Roads to San Francisco in 1908 and was fleet engineer of the Atlantic fleet on the tour around the world in 1908-1909. In 1909 he was appointed head of the Bureau of Steam Engineering with the rank of rear-ad miral and engineer-in-chief. This was followed by service at sea as commander of several vessels. During the World War he was in command of the United States Naval Aviation Forces and was wounded on board the S. S. "Leinster" when she was sunk in the Irish Sea by a German submarine. He received many decorations from foreign countries for his service in the war and was a member of many naval and scientific societies.
or CONID/E, a family so called on account of their form. All the cones have a similar external out line; the aperture is long and narrow, the head of the living animal is more or less lengthened, the foot is splay and abrupt ly cut off in front, the tentacles are rather widely separate and the eyes are placed on these organs. The textile cone shells, brought from Mauritius, a hand some species 4 or 5 inches in length, are marked with narrow, angular lines of dark brown, variegated with dashes of yellow and irregular white spots. The Admiral cone-shell is similar in appear ance but smaller, and both species haunt the fissures and holes in rocks and the warmer pools in coral reefs. They all take a moderate range of depth, varying from 1 to 40 fathoms.