[William Albert]. American zoologist, born in Detroit, MI, on the 14th of September 1857. He was graduated at the University of Michigan in 1881; spent a year in graduate work in the department of biology in the same institution, and a year in Harvard University, publishing, while there, a thesis containing the first printed account of the arthropod eye. He became professor of biology in Lake Forest College in 1887, and in 1891 was elected professor of physiology at Rush Medical College, in its medical department, retaining both chairs. By the authorities of Rush Medical College he was sent to Europe to purchase apparatus and inspect the laboratories of the Old World, and while in Germany carried on work under Du Bois-Reymond and Gad in the University of Berlin. On account of ill health he gave up his professorship at Rush Medical College in November 1891. In January 1896, he succeeded Dr. E. G. Conklin in the chair of zoology at Northwestern University. His contributions to the scientific periodicals of both Germany and America include Primary Segmentation of the Vertebrate Brain; The Derivation of the Pineal Eye; On Teaching Zoölogy to College Classes; and The Optic Vesicle of Elasmobranchs. Dr. Locy exercised editorial supervision in the department of general biology and zoology for the New American Supplements to the Encyclopædia Britannica, and wrote for the same the articles on Embryology; Huxley’s Segmentation of the Vertebrate Head and Brain; and Sense-Organs.
