IV OBITUARY NOTICES OF MEMBERS DECEASED. 



At Harvard Louis Agassiz was at the climax of his wonderful 

 career, and thither flocked many young men, who afterward became 

 leaders in biological science, to study under this great master ; 

 among these was Brooks. In the summer of 1873 he was a student 

 at Agassiz's laboratory at Penikese, and from that time until his 

 death he remained a student of marine life. The sea with its 

 teeming multitudes of living things always had a particular charm 

 for him, not merely because of the interest and variety of its forms 

 of life, but also because it was the scene of the earliest acts in the 

 drama of evolution. 



In 1875 he received the degree of Ph.D. from Harvard Uni- 

 versity and was appointed assistant in the museum of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History. On the founding of the Johns Hop- 

 kins University in 1876 Brooks applied for and obtained one of 

 their twenty famous fellowships, which have done so much to 

 change the character of university work and ideals in this country. 

 Before he entered upon his fellowship his abilities as a teacher were 

 recognized and he was appointed associate in biology. In 1883 

 he was appointed associate professor of morphology and in 1889 

 professor in that subject. On the retirement of Professor H. 

 Newell Martin from the headship of the Biological Department in 

 1894, Professor Brooks became head of the department and con- 

 tinued in that position until his death. His active scientific life 

 was therefore coextensive with that of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, and his love of the Biological Department and his loyalty 

 to his University were among his strong characteristics. 



Although his publications were numerous and important I think 

 that his influence was greatest and most far reaching in his work 

 as a teacher and scientific director. To few biologists, perhaps to 

 no other in the history of this country, has it been given to direct 

 the work and shape the scientific ideals of so large and influential 

 a body of young men. Among those who took their doctor's de- 

 grees under him are more than a score of the leading zoologists 

 of this country, while many other distinguished scholars of this 

 and foreign lands were his pupils. 



Although Professor Brooks would present a subject in his lec- 

 tures in a most clear and entertaining manner, he rarely if ever 



