LIST OF THE PUBLISHED BIOLOGICAL PAPERS OF FRANKLIN STORY CONANT.
1. DESCRIPTION OF TWO NEW CHAETOGNATHS. Johns Hopkins University Circulars, No. 119, June, 1895.
2. NOTES ON THE CHAETOGNATHS. Johns Hopkins University Circulars, No. 126, June, 1896.
3. THE INHIBITORY AND ACCELERATOR NERVES TO THE CRAB’S HEART (_an abstract_), by F. S. Conant and H. L. Clark. Johns Hopkins University Circulars, No. 126, June, 1896.
4. ON THE ACCELERATOR AND INHIBITORY NERVES TO THE CRAB’S HEART, by F. S. Conant and H. L. Clark. The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol. I, No. 2, 1896.
5. NOTES ON THE CUBOMEDUSÆ (_an abstract_). Johns Hopkins University Circulars, No. 132, November, 1897.
6. THE CUBOMEDUSÆ. (This was accepted in June, 1897, as his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and it is here printed.)
PART II: GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ANATOMY OF THE CUBOMEDUSÆ 7
(c) Interradial funnels, or funnel cavities 11
8. Peripheral Part of the Gastro-Vascular System 14
(a) Stomach Pockets (Valves and Mesogonial Pockets) 14
(c) Canals of the Sensory Clubs and Tentacles 17
PART III: DESCRIPTION OF SPECIAL PARTS OF THE ANATOMY 27
Jelly-fish offer to the lover of natural history an inexhaustible store of beauty and attractiveness. One who has studied them finds within him a ready echo to Haeckel’s statement that when first he visited the seacoast and was introduced to the enchanted world of marine life, none of the forms that he then saw alive for the first time exercised so powerful an attraction upon him as the Medusæ. The writer counts it a rare stroke of fortune that he was led to the study of a portion of the group by the discovery of two new species of Cubomedusæ in Kingston Harbor, Jamaica, W. I., while he was with the Johns Hopkins Marine Laboratory in June of 1896.
The Cubomedusæ are of more than passing interest among jelly-fish, both because of their comparative rarity and because of the high degree of development attained by their nervous system. One fact alone suffices to attract at once the attention of the student of comparative morphology--that here among the lowly-organized Cœlenterates we find an animal with eyes composed of a cellular lens contained in a pigmented retinal cup, in its essentials analogous to the vertebrate structure. Perhaps this and other facts about the Cubomedusæ would be more generally known, had they not been to a certain extent hidden away in Claus’s paper on Charybdea marsupialis (’78), which, while a record of careful and accurate work, is in many respects written and illustrated so obscurely that it is very doubtful whether one could arrive at a clear understanding of its meaning who was not pretty well acquainted with Charybdea beforehand.