[Annals N. V. Acad. Sci., XI, No. lo, pp. 193 to 217, July 29, 1898.] 



DESCRIPTION OF SOME MARINE NEMERTEANS 

 OF PUGET SOUND AND ALASKA. 



B. B. Griffin. 



(Read March 14, 1898.) 



Bradney Beverley Griffin died of pneumonia on March 

 26th — less than a fortnight after the present paper was read be- 

 fore the Academy. The editor of the Annals has now sent me 

 the proof for revision and has arranged that a brief notice of his 

 Hfe and work should be inserted as its preface. 



Mr. Griffin came rightfully by his deep interest in science, for 

 his forefathers on both sides had been prominent in the learned 

 professions, that of medicine especially. His father, Dr. Bradney 

 Griffin, although dying young, was a well-known practitioner in 

 New York. Mr. Griffin's mother is of the Hollister family : his 

 paternal grandmother was a du Barriere, one of whom together 

 with other nobles emigrated to this country during the French 

 Revolution. 



Mr. Griffin received his first degree in 1894, graduating with 

 highest honors, at the College of the City of New York. He 

 there evinced a remarkable bent for zoology. Continuing his 

 studies in the graduate Department of Columbia University he 

 would have taken the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the 

 present Commencement. He had held the position of Uni- 

 versity Fellow in Zoology and had taken part for two years in 

 the summer expeditions to the northwest coast. 



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