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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 CaroUna; 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 Carohna; 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. 
