Reprinted from THE JOURNAL OP EXPEIBMBNTAL ZOOLOGY VOL. 9, No. 1. 



WILLIAM KEITH BROOKS 



A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE BY SOME OF HIS FORMER PUPILS 



AND ASSOCIATES' 







William Keith Brooks, second of the four sons of Oliver Allen 

 Brooks and Ellenora Bradbury Kingsley, was born at Cleveland, 

 Ohio, March 25, 1848. His parents were both descended from 

 the early settlers of Massachusetts, the first of the name having 

 come to America from England, before the year 1634. His 

 father, who was born in Middlebury, Vermont, had removed to 

 Cleveland in 1835, where he was engaged in business. 



As a boy, Brooks was studious and thoughtful. He obtained 

 his early education in the public schools of Cleveland, and entered 

 Hobart College at the age of eighteen. Two years later he entered 

 the junior class at Williams College, from which he received the 

 degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1870. Although in college he had 



1 Biographical sketches of Professor W. K. Brooks have been published as fol- 

 lows: 



1. E. A. Andrews; Sketch of William Keith Brooks. Pop. Sci. Monthly, vol. 

 55 no. 3, July 1899, pp. 400-409, with portrait. 



2. E. A. Andrews; William Keith Brooks. Science, N. S. vol. 28 Dec. 4, 1908, 

 pp. 777-786, and Jan. 1, 1909, p. 31. 



3. Edwin G. Conklin; The Life and Work of Professor Brooks. Anatomical 

 Record, vol. 3, no. 1, January 1909, pp. 1-13, with portrait. 



4. Edwin G. Conklin; William Keith Brooks. Proc. Am. Phil. Soc., no. 190, 

 1909, pp. 3-10. 



5. Edwin G. Conklin; Biographical Memoir of William Keith Brooks, 1848- 

 1908. National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs, vol. 7, February 

 1910. 



6. E. A. Andrews; Biography of William Keith Brooks, in "Leading Americans," 

 Holt & Co., New York. 1910. " 



A meeting commemorative of Prof. Brooks was held in McCoy Hall, Johns 

 Hopkins University, Nov. 12, 1908. Addresses were made by Professor B. L. 

 Gildersleeve, Dr. H. M. Kurd, Professor W. H. Howell, Professor E. A. Andrews, 

 Dr. Caswell Grave and Professor W. H. Browne. See Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity Circular, January 1909. 



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