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again in 1896. Meantime Brooks took some six students to 

 Beaufort again in 1894 and sent four there in 1895. Finally in 

 1897 a party of twelve in charge of Prof. James Ellis Humphrey 

 spent two months at Port Antonio, Jamaica, with the lamentable 

 loss from yellow fever of their leader as well as of the talented 

 zoologist, Dr. Franklin Storey Conant. 



Since then the establishment by the Government of a permanent 

 laboratory at Beaufort and of the Carnegie Station on the Dry 

 Tortugas, have given facilities which Brooks was not slow to 

 utilize for his own work and that of his students. 



From this long recital we should learn that Brooks' " Chesapeake 

 Zoological Laboratory" evolved to fit the conditions and was 

 never crystallized nor hampered by rule or tradition; it was a free 

 organism, choosing its own environment, and even dropped its 

 outgrown name in 1891, to become the " Marine Laboratory." 



Through the history of this laboratory as through the history 

 of the university of which it was a part, ran a vein of good manage- 

 ment which makes it remarkable for the great results achieved by 

 little financial outlay, but with great labors of love and enthu- 

 siasm. 



The researches carried on by Professor Brooks were the natural 

 outcome of the above experience at the seaside or rather the prob- 

 lems he was interested in, led him to select the above environment. 

 Beginning his publications with observations upon the embryology 

 of mollusks, he long continued to make new discoveries in that 

 group of animals, publishing several monographs upon marine 

 and fresh-water mollusks, upon the squid and upon the mollus- 

 coidea. He was early interested in the Polyzoa and fresh-water 

 sponges about Cleveland. The Marine Crustacea with their 

 clear-cut problems of homology and of metamerism necessarily 

 appealed to his mind, and his discoveries in this group, his works 

 on "Lucifer," the " Stomatopods," and the " Macrura," are 

 amongst the most valuable and well known of his contributions 

 to knowledge. But amongst the still lower forms of life, the 

 Hydroids and jellyfish, he found his love of beauty of form most 

 satisfied. A monograph of American jellyfish in progress many 



