PREFACE 
ject was appointed by Prof. Samuel F. Clarke, who presided at 
the memorial meeting. Those who had been advanced students 
under Professor Brooks and a few others who had been intimately 
associated with him, were invited to contribute to the volume. 
The response to this invitation has been most cordial, and the 
Committee takes pleasure in expressing its thanks to the many 
who have cooperated for the success of the undertaking. 
The account of the life and work of Professor Brooks which 
is here printed is of somewhat unusual character in that it has 
been contributed by a number of different persons, who have 
known him, at various periods of his life, or who are especially 
qualified to estimate the significance of his work. The result is 
a composite sketch, which, while unavoidably lacking in con- 
tinuity, nevertheless gives, we believe, a vivid impression of the 
man, the exact nature of whose charm and influence was such as 
would have been difficult for a single person adequately to por- 
tray. For contributions to this sketch the Committee is indebted 
to Professors Ethan A. Andrews, William Bateson, Samuel F. 
Clarke, Edwin G. Conklin, Henry H. Donaldson, Oilman A. 
Drew, Otto C. Olaser, Caswell Orave, Francis H. Herrick, Henry 
McE. Knower, Oeorge Lefevre, Alfred O. Mayer, Maynard M. 
Metcalf, and Henry V. Wilson. It has been a task of no small 
difficulty to fit together so many short sketches into an harmoni- 
ous whole, and it has, of course, been impossible to reproduce 
any of them verbatim. The Committee must therefore beg 
the indulgence of those who have so kindly contributed, hoping 
that no one will feel that his work has received inconsiderate 
treatment. 
