CHAPTER XIX. 



1858-1864 (continued). 



"THE PHILOSOPHERS' CAMP" IN THE ADIRONDACK^ THE SATURDAY 

 CLUB DEATH OF PROFESSOR CORNELIUS C. FELTON SOCIAL RELA- 

 TIONS WITH MR. GEORGE TICKNOR AND MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE- 

 ACCLIMATIZATION OF AMERICAN MARINE ANIMALS ON THE COAST OF 

 FRANCE ENLISTMENT IN THE ARMY OF SEVERAL OF AGASSIZ'S PUPILS 

 A GRANT OF TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS BY THE LEGISLATURE OF 

 MASSACHUSETTS IN 1863 LECTURING TOUR IN THE WEST DURING 

 THE WINTER OF 1863-1864 COLLECTIONS OF FOSSIL CRINOIDS AT 

 BURLINGTON, IOWA DR. GEORGE ENGELMANN OF ST. Louis THE 

 TITLE OF HIS MUSEUM GLACIAL EXPLORATION IN MAINE. 



DURING all these years social life was at its height 

 with Agassiz. In August, 1858, the "Saturday Club" 

 made a summer expedition to the Adirondacks, under 

 the leadership of the poet -- afterward diplomatist - 

 James Russell Lowell, who was the youngest and the 

 most energetic of the "philosophers' camp." A roughly 

 built shelter, with a roof of fir bark, on the shore of 

 Follansbee Pond, a small lake in the Raquette Moun- 

 tains, not far from Keeseville on Lake Champlain, 

 served as tent for the whole party, which was com- 

 posed of Agassiz, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lowell, John 

 Holmes, Dr. E. Howe, Judge Hoar, A. Binney, Jeffries 

 Wyman, and a few others. The life was rather rough ; 

 all were in flannel shirts, red or blue, and slept wrapped 



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