go LOUIS AGASSIZ. [CHAP. xvn. 



services constantly rendered by the friends of Agassiz, 

 who, solely to please him, gave a great part of their time, 

 without compensation, and often even expended liberally 

 their own money to promote the progress of the infant 

 establishment. 



I may mention more especially the constant and 

 generous help of Mr. James M. Barnard, an old pupil 

 of Agassiz, who devoted a great deal of his time to the 

 Museum, increasing its collections, working at some of 

 them, subscribing largely to the funds of the Museum, 

 and finally taking in hand the numerous unsold volumes 

 and memoirs of Agassiz's works published in Switzer- 

 land, and disposing of them to the best pecuniary inter- 

 est of their author. From 1855 to 1865, a period when 

 he was always hard pressed, Mr. Barnard rendered 

 Agassiz the greatest service in his money affairs, thus 

 saving him from much trouble and nervous wear. To 

 him also belongs the credit of being the prime mover 

 and the treasurer of the Agassiz Memorial Teachers' 

 and Pupils' Fund raised in 1874, after the death of 

 Agassiz. 



Agassiz was so earnest that it was a pleasure to help 

 him and to increase the collections of his Museum. He 

 was almost irresistible when he begged some favour or 

 some beautiful and rare specimen. In the early sum- 

 mer of 1 860, on my return from an absence of six years 

 in Kuropc, I found that my friend Agassiz had much 

 altered in his appearance and in his capacity for original 

 study. As a teacher, he was as brilliant as ever ; and 

 as a collector of specimens, he was even more zealous 

 than he had been ; for having now a museum of his 



