I.OUIS AGASSIZ. [CHAP. xix. 



far as the house of one or the other, alternating each 

 week, whence, after enjoying a glass of French wine 

 and cigars, the visitor would return by a horse car. 

 This friendly arrangement lasted several years, until 

 Souchard returned to France in 1867. 



The Civil War was a terrible hindrance to the prog- 

 ress and prosperity of Agassiz's Museum. First of all, 

 almost half of his assistants and pupils left to enlist 

 in the army. Three of them died there, - - N. Bowditch, 

 C. A. Shurtleff, and A. P. Cragin. Nathaniel Bow- 

 ditch, son of Dr. Henry Bowditch, was killed on one 

 of the battle-fields of Virginia. Albert Ordway rose 

 rapidly to be colonel, and finally brigadier-general, of 

 United States volunteers. He had had charge of the 

 Crustacea at the Museum, and had begun good work on 

 the trilobites, but he unfortunately never returned to 

 the Museum, and has been lost to science. Alpheus 

 Hyatt remained over a year in Louisiana on the staff 

 of General Banks, the commanding officer, and after 

 good service returned as captain of volunteers in 1863, 

 several months after his time of service was over, for 

 he was so appreciated by his chief that General Banks 

 would not allow him to return earlier. Hyatt, more 

 than any other assistant of the Museum, deserves credit 

 for having enlisted for active service, because, educated 

 in Maryland, his family were in sympathy with the 

 South, and in enlisting in the Northern army, he en- 

 countered their strong opposition. 



Albert Bickmore deserves more than a passing 

 notice, for he made use of his spare time in the army 

 as a nine-months soldier to make a splendid collect in 



