14 William Keith Brooks 



interested them may be supplanted by others of more 

 modern type, for in biology, as in the other sciences, the 

 points of view change rapidly, and senescence as regards 

 theories and modes of thought is a process that comes on 

 with remarkable rapidity. But the spirit and ideals 

 which Brooks and Martin inculcated and exemplified can- 

 not be improved upon, and I hope that they will ever 

 characterize the work of this laboratory. 



PROFESSOR E. A. ANDREWS 



As the one of Professor Brooks's students who has 

 longest remained closely connected with him, as student, 

 assistant, and associate, and as one who has owed pecu- 

 liarly much to his helpful kindness, I feel unable here to 

 express my full debt of gratitude to so pure a friend. 



Coming with the traditions of a Yale student to the 

 Johns Hopkins University, some twenty years ago, and 

 knowing the fame of Professor Martin's books, I was sur- 

 prised to find in him a man young in years, and in Dr. 

 Brooks one old in thought. At that period Brooks ap- 

 peared to the new student a sphinx-like character, with 

 long, bushy beard, and ever in company of a huge 

 St. Bernard dog that followed him to the laboratory. 



It was then that Professor Brooks was making such 

 good use of the opportunities offered by the new univer- 

 sity in the founding of the Chesapeake Marine Laboratory, 

 which first realized the dreams of Louis Agassiz, with 

 whom, at Penikese, Brooks had studied. At Crisfield, 

 Hampton, Fort Wool, Beaufort, and later in the Bahamas 

 and in Jamaica, the work of Brooks and his men played 

 no small part in the advance of scientific zoology. And 

 happy are they who now, from universities throughout 

 the land, look back upon those days of stimulating con- 

 tact with Nature and her loving admirer and interpreter, 

 their master, William Keith Brooks. 



