438 LEADING AMERICAN MEN OF SCIENCE 



But even when President Oilman was still in California and 

 wrote East for advice as to the best man in America to hold the 

 chair of zoology in the new University to be formed in Baltimore, 

 Brooks was the man recommended strongly. 



Preliminary preparations for Natural History work were made 

 by Dr. Philip R. Uhler, Associate in Natural History, but he did 

 but pave the way; the coming of Huxley's ideals in the mind of 

 Prof. Henry Newell Martin, established the courses of instruction 

 in Biology and in Physiology, but in the organization of the new 

 work Brooks was at once made Associate in Natural History or 

 in Biology, and he gave independent lectures on the anatomy of 

 Invertebrates from January to the end of the year, 1877, for gradu- 

 ate students, while assisting Professor Martin in the first General 

 Biology course in April and May of 1877. It is significant that 

 Brooks also gave sixteen public lectures on "The Theories of 

 Biology." In a sense the methods of this laboratory became a 

 mingling of the ideals of Huxley and of Agassiz, the former trans- 

 lated by Martin, the latter by Brooks. 



Later on we find him lecturing on embryology, comparative 

 anatomy and osteology and upon morphological problems of 

 more and more special nature with increasing remoteness from 

 the needs of the beginner in zoology to whom, however, he gave 

 some of his lectures and personal supervision down even to 1907. 

 But his main influence was with the graduate students whom he 

 trained, as Associate in Zoology, Associate Professor in Compara- 

 tive Anatomy, Associate Professor of Morphology, Professor of 

 Animal Morphology (in 1891), Head of the Biological Laboratory 

 after the resignation of Professor Martin in 1893, Professor of 

 Zoology, and Henry Walters Professor of Zoology, as the title 

 changed from time to time. The Johns Hopkins University thus 

 became his mental home, his stimulating environment for more 

 than half his lifetime, through all the productive years from 1876 to 

 his death in 1908. 



To comprehend his unfolding here, we must recall both what he 

 brought to the University and what the University held for him. 

 What he seemed when he first came has been recently recalled by 



