1. Dennis M. McCullough, ?W. K. Brooks's Role in the History of American Biology,? J. Hist. Biol.2 (1969), 411?438.
2. The bests sources of information on the early history of Johns Hopkins University are John C. French, A History of the University Founded by Johns Hopkins (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1946); Hugh Hawkins, Pioneer: A History of the Johns Hopkins University, 1874?1889 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1960); R. J. Storr, The Beginnings of Graduate Education in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953); and Laurence R. Veysey, The Emergence of the American University (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965).
3. For a more extensive treatment of the early development of Johns Hopkins University, see the works cited in note 2. Hawkins' Pioneer is particularly valuable.
4. ?Preliminary Announcement,? Johns Hopkins University, Report of the President (17 January 1876), p. 30.
5. ; p. 56.