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Franklin Story Conant
1870–1897
A gifted American biologist whose promising career was cut tragically short, he is remembered for pioneering research on box jellyfish. His best-known work, The Cubomedusæ, was published as a memorial volume after his death.
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The Cubomedusæ
by Franklin Story Conant
About the author
Born in Boston on September 21, 1870, Franklin Story Conant was an American biologist best known for his research on Cubozoa, or box jellyfish. Sources connected with his memorial volume describe him as a young scientist whose work focused on the embryology and physiology of these animals.
His best-known book, The Cubomedusæ, grew out of his doctoral dissertation at Johns Hopkins University in 1897 and was published in 1898 after his death. The work helped secure his reputation as an important early student of marine biology.
Conant died in Boston on September 13, 1897, just shy of his twenty-seventh birthday, after contracting yellow fever in Jamaica. Even with such a brief life, he left behind research that continued to be read and preserved by libraries, archives, and Project Gutenberg.