WlIvLlAM KEITH BROOKS — CONKUN 



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 Commis- 

 sion 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^ 



In twenty years the Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory pro- 

 vided facilities for more than 160 workers, and approximately 

 200 papers were published as a result of these sessions. In 

 reviewing this enterprise one cannot fail to be impressed with 

 the great results accomplished with small financial outlay. For 

 the purposes which Brooks had in mind the advantages of a 

 laboratory whose equipment could be moved from place to 

 place are most evident, and the need of such laboratories is not 

 yet past. May the Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory, or some 

 other worthy successor, continue this work, so well begun by 

 Brooks ! 



On these various expeditions Doctor Brooks was interested 

 not merely in zoology, but also in botany and geology, and in 

 the customs, characters, and histories of the people among 

 whom he was living. He took keen interest while in the Ba- 

 hamas in following the route of Columbus from island to 

 island. He advocated the establishment of a Columbus Bio- 

 logical Station in memory of the great discoverer. He was 

 particularly interested in the Indians found by Columbus on 

 these islands, and he wrote a very interesting popular account 

 of them, and prepared a monograph on their physical anthro- 

 pology based on a study of a collection of their skulls. His 

 love of the artistic was shown in his vivid pen picture of "Life 

 on a Coral Island" and "Aspects of Nature in the West Indies." 

 The following letter, written to his brother while on his last 

 scientific expedition, describes in his vivid manner a trip which 

 he made into the Everglades : 



The Jefferson, 

 Key West, Florida, March 21, 1906. 

 Dear Charles : I am in the "hottest place in the U. S." in an over- 

 coat and my thickest underclothing. I am to get off to the Dry Tor- 

 tugas tomorrow, on an excursion of army officers, after having been ten 

 days on the journey. It has been a pleasant and profitable journey on 

 the whole, but the delays have been very tiresome. 



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