NATIONAL ACADEMY BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS — VOL V'tl 



1881 : May 2 — end of August, Beaufort, North Carolina ; 12 members. 

 An "Elementary Seaside School" had been announced, with 

 lectures by Brooks and S. F. Clarke; fee for the course, $25. 



1882 : May 1 — end of September, Beaufort, North Carolina ; 8 members. 



1883 : May 1 — October 1, Hampton, Virginia. As a member of the 

 Maryland Oyster Commission Brooks was obliged to spend 

 this summer on the Chesapeake. The new machine shop of the 

 Hampton Institute was rented as a laboratory, and a fast sloop 

 was added to the equipment. Wm. Bateson there joined the 

 party to study the development of Balanoglossus. 



1884: June 1 — September 19, Beaufort, North Carolina; 10 members. 

 The illness of Brooks obliged him to return after a month, 

 leaving the laboratory in charge of H. W. Conn. Bateson, who 

 was again with the party, was also seriously ill. 



1885: May 23 — September 15, Beaufort, North Carolina; 11 members. 

 Brooks became a licensed pilot to take the steam launch in and 

 out of Beaufort Inlet. 



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 furniture 

 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 University, 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 Com- 

 mission 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 Siegerfoos was acting director ; Brooks was not present. 



1806: 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. 



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