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aquaria improvised out of pails and buckets. Agassiz 

 lectured nearly every day, and frequently twice a day, 

 and his passion for teaching had full play. Mr. C. W. 

 Galloupe of Boston made him a donation of his yacht, 

 Sprite, and as she was fully equipped, Pourtales took 

 charge of her and at once began dredging, going 

 out daily, weather permitting, with eight or ten stu- 

 dents, and obtaining a variety of specimens which could 

 not be procured from the shore ; and at the close of 

 the school session they went as far as Casco Bay, to 

 dredge for brachiopods and echinoderms that could 

 not be procured in Buzzard's Bay. 



Agassiz left Penikese 1 at the end of the summer, 

 when the school broke up, and on invitation of friends 

 visited the mountains for rest, which was an absolute 

 necessity in his present condition of mental and physi- 



1 The Anderson School of Natural History at Penikese Island did not 

 survive long after Agassiz's death. The appeal for aid addressed by Mr. 

 Alexander Agassiz to the superintendents of public institutions and presi- 

 dents of State Boards of Education of the several states, did not find the 

 ready response necessary for the support of the school, and although the 

 expenses were estimated at a minimum, they were too large for the means 

 at the disposal of the director, and the Anderson School was soon a thing 

 of the past. But if its existence was ephemeral, it set a most beneficial 

 example, soon followed by permanent schools of the same sort, created in 

 imitation of the Marine Biological Laboratory of Penikese Island, first, 

 those at Wood's Holl, Mass., one under the direction of the United States 

 Fish Commission, and the other directed by Mr. C. O. Whitman; second, 

 one at Annisquam, and afterward at several other places on the Atlantic 

 and Pacific coasts, under the direction of the Johns Hopkins University, the 

 State University of California, and the Leland Stanford Jr. University, while 

 Mr. Alexander Agassiz, notwithstanding his failure at Penikese in carrying 

 on the school, has since built a fine laboratory at Castle Hill, near his 

 summer residence at Newport, Rhode Island, where researches on living 

 marine animals are made every summer under his direction and at his 

 expense. 



