William Keith Brooks

William Keith Brooks

William Keith Brooks, LL.D., Ph.D. (1848-1908) was an American zoologist, born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 25, 1848. He was educated at Williams College and at Harvard (Ph.D., 1875). He was employed at Johns Hopkins University from 1876 onward. He trained many of the prominent embryologists of the country.

He published:
* "Hand-Book of Invertebrate Zoölogy" (1882)
* "Heredity" (1882)
* "The Development and Protection of the Oyster in Maryland" (1884)
* "Lucifer: A Study in Morphology" (1881)
* "The Stomatopoda of H. M. S. Challenger" (1886)
* "A Monograph of the Genus Salpa" (1893)
* "Foundations of Zoölogy" (1898)

Publications

*Jordan, "Leading Men of Science", (New York, 1910)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/williamkeithbroo00philrich "William Keith Brooks; a sketch of his life"] (1910). From Internet Archive.


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