NATIONAL ACADEMY BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS — VOL. VII 



a comparatively good old age, was due to the fact that the heart 

 lesion was very well guarded by muscular tissue, so that it did 

 not increase during life. Had it been otherwise, it would have 

 been out of the question for him to have survived so long. 



His funeral was held on November i6th, at Towson, Mary- 

 land. After preliminary services in Trinity Church, his body 

 was followed by his colleagues, students, and friends to its 

 last resting place "on the brow of a hill overlooking a broad 

 valley, in the cemetery of the county seat of Baltimore county." 



A meeting commemorative of Professor Brooks was held at 

 McCoy Hall, Johns Hopkins University, on Sunday afternoon, 

 December 6, 1908. President Remsen presided, and spoke of 

 Doctor Brooks' early connection with the university, and of his 

 career as an investigator, a teacher, a colleague, and a man. 

 Addresses were delivered by Prof. B. L. Gildersleeve, Dr. H. 

 M. Hurd, Prof. W. H. Howell, Prof. E. A. Andrews, and 

 Dr. Caswell Grave. These addresses, together with a letter 

 fiom Prof. William Hand Browne, and a biographical sketch 

 of Professor Brooks by Doctor Andrews, were published in 

 the Johns Hopkins University Circular for January, 1909. 



A memorial dinner, attended by former students and bio- 

 logical associates of Professor Brooks, was held in McCoy 

 Hall, Johns Hopkins University, on the evening of December 

 31, 1908. About sixty persons were present, and short ad- 

 dresses were made by Profs. S. F. Clarke, of Williams Col- 

 lege; E. A. Birge, of the University of Wisconsin; E. B. Wil- 

 son and T. H. Morgan, of Columbia University; H. W. Conn, 

 of Wesleyan University ; H. H. Donaldson, of the Wistar Insti- 

 tute ; C. F. Hodge, of Clark University; F. H. Herrick, of 

 Western Reserve University; M. M. Metcalf, of Oberlin Col- 

 lege; J. P. McMurrich, of the University of Toronto; H. V. 

 Wilson, of the University of North Carolina; R. G. Harrison, 

 of Yale University; E. G. Conklin, of Princeton University, 

 and W. H. Howell and E. A. Andrews, of Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



At this dinner it was decided to publish a memorial volume 

 to Professor Brooks, to consist in the main of original scien- 

 tific papers contributed by his pupils. Since Doctor Brooks 

 was one of the editors of the Journal of Experimental Zoology, 



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