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attempted to smooth the path of the investigator; the latter was to 

 a very large extent thrown upon his own resources. He believed 

 so thoroughly in the law of natural selection, as he once told me, 

 that he thought it was best for a student to find out for himself, 

 as soon as possible, whether he was fitted for independent investi- 

 gation or not, and by this rigid discipline the unfit were weeded 

 out from the fit. This was certainly no school for weaklings, but 

 it afforded magnificent training for those who had ability and 

 determination. For those who endured this ordeal he maintained 

 the warmest regard, and his interest and pride in the work of his 

 students was as marked as it was stimulating. 



In connection with his work as teacher and director must be 

 mentioned the establishment by him of the Chesapeake Zoological 

 Laboratory in 1878. This was the second marine laboratory in 

 this country founded for advanced work in pure zoology. The 

 first was established by Louis Agassiz on the island of Penikese in 

 Buzzards Bay in 1871. The Chesapeake Laboratory, unlike the one 

 at Penikese, was not limited to one place, it consisted neither of 

 buildings nor equipment, but of men and ideas. For the first few 

 years of its existence it was located at several different points in 

 Chesapeake Bay; afterwards it was located at Beaufort, N. C, then 

 at difterent places in the Bahama Islands, and finally in Jamaica. 

 In the various expeditions of Brooks and his students to these 

 different places they made not only a thorough biological survey 

 of each region, but they did work of most fundamental and fp.r 

 reaching importance on the various groups of animals found. Out 

 of these expeditions has grown the beautiful and permanent sta- 

 tion of the U. S. Fisheries Bureau at Beaufort, N. C, in which 

 Brooks took great interest and pride. 



The " Scientific Results of the Sessions of the Chesapeake 

 Zoological Laboratory " were at first published as a separate journal 

 of which Brooks was the founder and editor, later this was incor- 

 porated in the " Studies from the Biological Laboratory "of which 

 he was joint editor with H. Newell Martin. He subsequently 

 established and edited " Memoirs from the Biological Laboratory," 

 a large quarto for the publication of important monographs. He 



