J. C. McConnell

McConnell was an anatomist with the Army Medical Museum in Washington, D.C. For thirty-five years, he drew "many thousand exquisite drawings" of fossils, shells and bones for scientific publications.

In an obituary, it was stated that, "as a draughtsman, in black and white line for scientific purposes, he had no equal in this country, if in the world.

"[2] He is most well known for his "incomparable pictures of shells"[3] and illustrated a number of publications by the famous malacologist William Healey Dall.

For example, most of the black and white illustrations in R. Tucker Abbott's American Seashells (1954) were by McConnell.

Although he held a medical degree and used the title "doctor", "officially he was a clerk.