WILLIAM KEITH BROOKS. 
A sentiment of mournful interest must ever associate itself with the 
following papers by Professor William Keith Brooks, for they are the last 
that can fall from his able pen. He died on November 12, 1908, in the 
sixtieth year of his age. 
Science must mourn him as a profound philosopher, the discoverer of 
many truths in morphology, and a teacher whose pupils are the greatest of 
American biologists to-day. The practical world will recollect him as the 
father of the science of oyster culture in America. 
Good as these things be, deeper and above them all, there lives in our 
hearts a love for this kindly man of culture, the modest, hopeful teacher, 
who was free from all trace of pedantry. 
The spirit of his simple faith in research he has passed on to those whose 
lives were enriched by knowing him, and who now follow where he led in 
the study of his science. 
A. GM 
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