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lecture-rooms but in the unconventional months at the seaside and 

 in the intimacy of his evening reading at his home where the stu- 

 dents were welcomed to his family circle and enjoyed Brooks' 

 exposition of technical papers, philosophical writings, travels of 

 naturalists, or even Kingsley's Water Babies and a poem of Hood. 



Professor Brooks was not given to self-seeking and canvassing 

 for academic preferments and honors, but his worth was not 

 without recognition. Very early, when but thirty-six years old, 

 he was elected member of the National Academy. Williams 

 College in 1893, and Hobart in 1899, an d the University of Penn- 

 sylvania in 1906, bestowed upon him the honorary LL.D. degree. 



He was chosen a member of the American Philosophical Society 

 in 1886, and of the Academy of Natural Sciences in 1887. He 

 was a member of the Boston Society of Natural History, the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Maryland Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences, and the American Society of Zoologists while 

 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of 

 Science and of the Royal Microscopical Society. He was editor 

 of the quarto series of Memoirs from the Biological Laboratory 

 published by the Johns Hopkins University, and one of the editors 

 of the Journal of Experimental Zoology and of the Studies from 

 the Biological Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University. He 

 was Lowell Lecturer in 1901, and gave one of the chief addresses 

 in 1907 before the International Zoological Congress in Boston. 



For his scientific discoveries on the oyster he was awarded, in 

 1883, the medal of the Societe d'Acclimatation of Paris and for his 

 work on the stomatopods of the Challenger Expedition received 

 a Challenger Medal. He also received a medal for an address at 

 the St. Louis Exposition of 1904. 



If in reviewing the life of this man who has been called "a sub- 

 limely simple man of rare and subtle culture" we ask what quali- 

 ties of mind and character and what training have guided his con- 

 tributions to the advance of science in America we must first 

 clearly realize that in him the inborn overcame the obstacles of 

 his experience however important may have been the circumstances 

 of his life in shaping his self-expression. If with Professor Brooks 



