VITA. 



The writer of the foregoing dissertation, Franklin Story Conant, the 

 son of Farley Franklin and Emily Wilbur Conant, was born in Boston, 

 Massachusetts, September 21, 1870. His preliminary education was 

 received in the public schools of Boston and the vicinity. In 1887 he 

 entered the University of South Carolina, at Columbia, South Carolina, 

 where he spent two years. In the fall of 1890 he entered Williams 

 College and was graduated from there in 1893 with the degree of 

 Bachelor of Arts. In the spring of 1894 he joined the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory of this University at Beaufort, North Carolina, and in the 

 fall of the same year entered upon a course of studies for the degree of 

 Doctor of Philosophy, comprising Zoology as the chief subject, Physiology 

 and Botany as the subordinates. 



Two months of the summer of 1895 were spent at Beaufort again, 

 chiefly in investigations upon the Chastognaths. In 1896 three months 

 were spent with the Marine Laboratory in Jamaica. In June of 1895 he 

 was appointed to a fellowship in Zoology, and in the following year was 

 made a Fellow by courtesy. 



BIOLOGICAL, LABORATORY, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY. 



