William Keith Brooks papers, 1880-1906.

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William Keith Brooks papers, 1880-1906.

The collection consists of three series: research notes, reprints and drawings.

5 linear ft. (1 document box, 1 flat box, 8 oversize boxes, 1 oversize drawer)

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Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory

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Johns Hopkins University. Dept. of Zoology.

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Brooks, William Keith, 1848-1908

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Brooks was professor of biology at Hopkins and the founder of the Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory. He was born in Cleveland in 1848 and received his B.A. from Williams in 1870 and received his Ph. D from Harvard in 1875. In 1876 he was received one of the first advanced fellowships at Hopkins. He remained on the faculty until his death in 1908. Brook's morphological studies of tunicates and coelenterates were his outstanding contribution to biology. He published numerou...