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overwork, and signs of failing health were only too 

 visible. His young assistants ought to have been more 

 considerate, and endured with more composure the 

 weak points of their position. Both sides suffered by 

 the separation, but the assistants suffered the most; 

 and to this day the result of this secession is still visible 

 on most of them, although they are all very proud of 

 being old pupils of Agassiz. 



