CHAPTER XXV. 



1872-1873: JST. 65-66. 



Return to Cambridge. Summer School proposed. In- 

 terest of Agassiz. Gift of Mr. Anderson. Prospectus 

 of Penikese School. Difficulties. Opening of School. 

 Summer Work. Close of School. Last Course of 

 Lectures at Museum. Lecture before Board of Agricul- 

 ture. Illness. Death. Place of Burial. 



IN October, 1872, Agassiz returned to Cam- 

 bridge. To arrange the collections he had 

 brought back, to write a report of his jour- 

 ney and its results, to pass the next summer 

 quietly at his Nahant laboratory, continuing 

 his work on the Sharks and Skates, for which 

 he had brought home new and valuable mate- 

 rial, seemed the natural sequence of his year 

 of travel. But he found a new scheme of ed- 

 ucation on foot ; one for which he had himself 

 given the first impulse, but which some of 

 his younger friends had carefully considered 

 and discussed in his absence, being confident 

 that with his help it might be accomplished. 

 The plan was to establish a summer school 



