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Memoirs from the Biological Laboratory
OF THE
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
IV, 1
WILLIAM K. BROOKS, EDITOR
THE CUBOMEDUSÆ
A DISSERTATION PRESENTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY,
IN THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, 1897
BY
FRANKLIN STORY CONANT
A MEMORIAL VOLUME
BALTIMORE
The Johns Hopkins Press
1898
PRINTED BY
The Lord Baltimore Press
THE FRIEDENWALD COMPANY
BALTIMORE, MD., U. S. A.
With the kind regards of Franklin Story Conant.
THE HELIOTYPE PRINTING CO. BOSTON
FRANKLIN STORY CONANT
SEPTEMBER 21, 1870—SEPTEMBER 13, 1897
A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
This Treatise is printed after the author’s death, as a Memorial byhis friends, fellow-students and instructors, with the aid of the JohnsHopkins University. It consists of his Dissertation, reprinted from thecopy which was accepted by this University at his examination for thedegree of Doctor of Philosophy in June, 1897.
As he had made many notes on the embryology of the Cubomedusæ,and had hoped to complete and publish them together with an accountof physiological experiments with these medusæ, he had described theDissertation on the title-page as Part I, Systematic and Anatomical, andhe went to Jamaica immediately after his examination to continue hisstudies and to procure new material, and he there lost his life.
Franklin Story Conant was born in Boston on September 21, 1870,and he died in Boston on September 13, 1897, a few days after his arrivalfrom Jamaica, where he had contracted yellow fever throughself-sacrificing devotion to others.
He was educated in the public schools of New England; at theUniversity of South Carolina; at Williams College, where he receivedthe degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1893; and in the Johns HopkinsUniversity, where he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1897,and where he was appointed a Fellow in 1896 and Adam T. Bruce Fellowin 1897.
Most of his instructors have told us that they quickly discovered thatConant was a young man of unusual intelligence and energy and uprightness,and as his education progressed he secured the esteem and theaffectionate interest of all who had him in charge, so that they continuedto watch his career with increasing pride and satisfaction.
He entered the Johns Hopkins University in the spring of 1894, andat once joined the party o