FRANKLIN STORY CON ANT was born in Boston on September 21, 1870, 

 and he died in Boston on September 13, 1897, a few days after his arrival 

 from Jamaica, where he had contracted yellow fever through self-sacri- 

 ficing devotion to others. 



He was educated in the public schools of New England ; at the 

 University of South Carolina ; at Williams College, where he received 

 the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1893 ; and in the Johns Hopkins 

 University, where he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1897, 

 and where he was appointed a Fellow in 1896 and Adain T. Bruce Fellow 

 in 1897. 



Most of his instructors have told us that they quickly discovered that 

 Conant was a young man of unusual intelligence and energy and upright- 

 ness, and as his education progressed he secured the esteem and the 

 affectionate interest of all who had him in charge, so that they continued 

 to watch his career with increasing pride and satisfaction. 



He entered the Johns Hopkins University in the spring of 1894, and 

 at once joined the party of students in zoology who were working, under 

 my direction, in the marine laboratory of the University at Beaufort, 

 North Carolina ; and from that time until his death he devoted himself 

 continually, without interruption, to his chosen subject spending his 

 winters in the laboratory in Baltimore, and devoting his summers to out- 

 of-door studies at Beaufort and at Wood's Holl, and in Jamaica. 



It is as a student and not as an investigator that we must remember 

 Conant, for most of his time was given to reading and study on subjects 

 of general educational value ; although he had begun, before his death, 

 to make original contributions to science and to demonstrate his ability 

 to think and work on independent lines. 



His study of the Chaetognaths was undertaken only for the purpose 

 of verifying the account of their anatomy and development in the text 

 books, but it soon showed the presence at Beaufort of several undescribed 

 species. Without interrupting his more general studies, he employed 

 his odd moments for three years in their systematic analysis, and at 

 last published two papers, " Description of Two New Chaetognaths,' 1 and 

 " Notes on the Chaetognaths," which show notable power of close and 



