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the street and by moving over into the houses on the lee side. 

 Returning then to Fort Wool, the second session was completed 

 September 15. 



But it was patent that the fauna of the Chesapeake Bay would 

 not furnish the material needed for the problems Brooks was 

 keen to study: the well-known richness of the fauna of Beaufort, 

 North Carolina, drew him thither. With an annual appropriation 

 of $1,000, and some $4,500 for a steam launch, built for him at 

 Bristol, Rhode Island, and for other apparatus, Brooks in 1880 

 took a party of six to this rather remote village where they opened 

 their laboratory from April 23 to September 30, more than five 

 months of the year, in the residence known as the Gibbs house and 

 bearing the distinction of being " built of cypress and put together 

 with copper nails." 



The success of this venture brought back a party of twelve in 

 1 88 1, but some of these were students just finishing college work, 

 drawn by this year's announcement that there would be an "Ele- 

 mentary seaside school" with fees of $25, and board and lodging 

 available from $20 to $30 per month, and daily lectures by Dr. W. 

 K. Brooks and Dr. S. F. Clarke. This session lasted from May 2 

 to the end of August. 



Again in 1882, Brooks made one of a party of eight at Beaufort, 

 from May i to the end of September. Seven months of the year 

 at the sea-shore laboratory and the rest in the laboratory in Balti- 

 more! 



However, being appointed by the Governor, Oyster Commis- 

 sioner, Brooks was obliged in 1883 to remain in the Chesapeake 

 and opened the laboratory at Hampton, Virginia, occupying part 

 of the new machine shop of the Hampton Institute from May i to 

 October i. This proved an unfavorable location for the forms 

 of life that Doctor Brooks was interested in, though the visiting 

 Englishman, William Bateson, there enjoyed the opportunity to 

 add to his famous studies of the problematical worm Balanoglossus. 

 It was there also that the equipment of the laboratory was en- 

 larged by the purchase of a fast sloop yacht which, though black 

 enough as to paint, mingled with its usefulness something of the 



