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ZOOLOGY 



And he wandered away and away 

 With Nature, the dear old nurse, 

 Who sang to him night and day 

 The rhymes of the Universe. 



And whenever the way seemed long, 

 Or his heart began to fail, 

 She would sing a more wonderful song 

 Or tell a more marvelous tale. 



Evolution 



The Agassiz 

 Museum 



At Cambridge Agassiz's warmest friends were the 

 great New England writers, Longfellow, Lowell, 

 Holmes, Emerson, and the rest. With the purely 

 scientific men he was somewhat less in accord, partly 

 on account of differences in temperament, and partly 

 because they were becoming disciples of Darwin, whose 

 theory of evolution he could never bring himself to 

 accept. His students who afterwards became eminent 

 naturalists, men such as Jordan, Scudder, Dall, Shaler, 

 Packard, Hyatt, Verriil, Morse, Garman, and the rest, 

 all accepted evolution ; but they were of a later genera- 

 tion. Agassiz, in 1859, could not make over his bio- 

 logical philosophy. 



10. During the last fourteen years of Agassiz's 

 life, his interests centered around his museum, the 

 corner stone of which was laid in 1859. Officially it 

 is the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard 

 University, but every one calls it the Agassiz Museum. 

 It is not one of the largest museums of the world, 

 such as the British Museum, but it is devoted to the 

 exhibition, in compact form, of the whole animal 

 kingdom. It is designed for teaching and research, 

 not for a great national storehouse. In its strength 

 and its limitations it is a typical university museum, 

 with scarcely an equal anywhere. Agassiz obtained 

 for it not only private legacies and gifts, but actually 



