24 WILLIAM KEITH BROOKS 



1886: June 2-July 1, Green Turtle Key, Abaco, Bahamas; 7 members. 

 The party left Baltimore, May 1, in a small Bay schooner, 

 chartered by the day, with Brooks as pilot. With head winds, 

 mishaps and a stop at Beaufort to take on laboratory furni- 

 ture they did not reach their destination until June 2. 



1887: March 1-July 1, Nassau, Bahamas; 12 members. After this 

 session, owing to financial losses on the part of the Uni- 

 versity, the Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory was tem- 

 porarily suspended and its outfit dispersed. 



1888 and 1889: Brooks, with some of his students, was at Woods Hole, 

 Massachusetts, as naturalist in charge of the U. S. Fish 

 Commission Station. 



1891: May 26-September 1, Kingston, Jamaica; 15 members. The 

 Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory was established at Port 

 Henderson, on the harbor opposite Kingston. 



1892: A party of three, in charge of Professor Andrews, was located 

 at Alice Town, North Bimini, Bahamas. Brooks did not go. 



1893: April 20-July 23, Port Henderson, Jamaica; 7 members. Brooks 

 did not go and Dr. R. P. Bigelow was acting director. 



1894: April 7- July 7, Beaufort, North Carolina; 9 members. Brooks 

 was present. 



1895: June 6-August 13, Beaufort, North Carolina; 4 members. Doc- 

 tor Sigerfoos was acting director; Brooks was not pre- 

 sent. 



1896: April 29-July 30, Port Henderson, Jamaica; 4 members. Dr. 

 F. S. Conant was acting director; Brooks was there for a 

 while. 



1897: June-September, Port Antonio, Jamaica; 12 members. Prof. 

 James Ellis Humphrey was acting director. Humphrey 

 died there of yellow fever, August 12; Dr. Franklin Story 

 Conant contracted the fever there, and died on his return 

 to Boston in September. 



1898: Beaufort, North Carolina; 6 members. Prof. H. V. Wilson was 

 director. In this and all subsequent years students went, 

 with little or no aid from the University, to the U. S. Fish 

 Commission Station at Beaufort. 



1901-1906: Brooks was again at Beaufort in 1901 and 1903, and at 

 the Marine Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution at Dry 

 Tortugas, Florida, in 1905 and 1906. 



