VII 



HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR 



SCUDDER 1 



IT was more than fifteen years ago [from 

 1874] that I entered the laboratory of 

 Professor Agassiz, and told him I had 

 enrolled my name in the Scientific School as a 

 student of natural history. He asked me a 

 few questions about my object in coming, my 

 antecedents generally, the mode in which I 

 afterwards proposed to use the knowledge I 

 might acquire, and, finally, whether I wished to 

 study any special branch. To the latter I 

 replied that, while I wished to be well grounded 

 in all departments of zoology, I purposed to 

 devote myself specially to insects. 



'When do you wish to begin?' he asked. 



'Now/ I replied. 



This seemed to please him, and with an ener- 

 getic 'Very well!' he reached from a shelf a 

 huge jar of specimens in yellow alcohol. 



1 ' In the Laboratory with Agassiz,' by Samuel H. Scudder, 

 from Every Saturday (April 4, 1874) 16, 369-370. 



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