William Keith Brooks

William Keith Brooks (March 25, 1848 – November 12, 1908) was an American zoologist, professor of morphology at Johns Hopkins University, and leading expert on Mollusca mollusks, tunicates, crustaceans, and embryological development in invertebrates. He was elected in 1884 to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, in 1886 to the American Philosophical Society, in 1892 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1904 to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Quotes Oyster farming can be successfully carried on in shallow waters near the shore, with a small capital and on a small scale, and we believe that the changes in the five-acre law which we have recommended in the section on oyster-planting are all that are needed at present for the encouragement of oyster farming in shallow water.The cultivation of oyster farms in deep water, on the other hand, requires the investment of a large capital, and it can only be carried on to advantage on a large scale, either by the State, in areas set apart for the purpose, or by private individuals or companies upon large tracts deeded to them for oyster farming by the State. The Development and Protection of the Oyster in Maryland: Commission of the State of Maryland, and Presented to the General Assembly, February, 1884 Publication Agency of the Johns Hopkins University 1884 https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Development_and_Protection_of_the_Oy.html?id=GS9AAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA11 11–12 (193 pages) The Chesapeake Bay is one of the richest agricultural regions of the earth, and its fertility can be compared only with that of the valleys of the Nile and the Ganges and other great rivers. It owes its fertility to the very same causes as those which have enabled the Nile valley to support a dense human population for untold ages without any loss of fertility; but it is adapted for producing only one crop, the oyster. The Oyster: A Popular Summary of a Scientific Study 1905 Johns Hopkins University Press revised, 2nd https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Oyster.html?id=yCOUY6ww6PMC&pg=PA5 5 (225 pages; 1ste edition 1891) Quotes about William Keith Brooks ... one of his first acts at the Johns Hopkins University was the organization of the Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory. ...The Chesapeake Laboratory, unlike the one at Penikese Island Penikese, was not limited to one place; it consisted neither of buildings nor equipment, but of men and ideas. For the first years of its existence it was located at several different points on Chesapeake Bay; afterwards it was located at Beaufort, North Carolina; then at different places in the The Bahamas Bahama Islands, and finally in Jamaica. In the various expeditions of Brooks and his students to these different places they made not only a thorough biological survey of each region, but they did work of most fundamental and far-reaching importance on the various groups of animals found. Out of these expeditions has grown the beautiful and permanent station of the U. S. Fisheries Bureau at Beaufort, North Carolina, in which Brooks took great interest and pride. Edwin Grant Conklin, Biographical Memoir of William Keith Brooks, 1848-1908, read before the autumn 1909 session of the U.S. National Academy of Science Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 1913 7 23–88 https://books.google.com/books?id=uS4WAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47 (quote from pp. 47–48) External links Category:1848 births Category:1908 deaths Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Marine biologists Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society Category:Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Category:Williams College alumni Category:Zoologists from the United States