The Law of Heredity. A Study of the Cause of Variation, and the Origin of Living Organisms
Baltimore: John Murphy & Co. 1883. First Edition. [iii]-xii, [5]-336 pages. Publisher's brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on front panel, the usual spine titling, and simple embossed nested boxes on rear. Corner tips lightly bumped. 26 figures, frontispiece and one other full page plate. INSCRIBED "Dr. Berman with the best wishes of the author." at head of title page. Generally bright and clean. Near Fine. Cloth. [23348]
Brooks was Associate in Biology, John Hopkins University at the time he wrote this book. He exhibited a life-long interest in natural history, having a microscope in his room at Williams College which he used to entertain friends. After a short lived experiment with industry, he embarked on a professional teaching career, eventually working with various luminaries and himself founding the Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory. Graduate school at Harvard, winner of one of 20 coveted prizes at Hopkins when it first started, he reached Professor of Biology in 1889 and Department Head in 1894 a post he held until his death. In this book he dedicates to Darwin's influences, he talks about many areas, including the history of heredity, and later current theories and work being done. Chapter X is evidence from the intellectural differences between women and men. The next chapter heading suggests the Theory of Heredity considered as supplementary to the Theory of Natural Selection. (See biographical writeup in the National Academy of Sciences for more information on Brooks).
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