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Tis not in mortals to 

 COMMAND success, but 

 we'll do more, Sempro- 

 nius, we'll DESERVE 



IT. — Addison : Cato . 



The most desirable in- 

 stitutions for scientific 

 work would probably be 

 comparatively small labo- 

 ratories conducted by the 

 scientific men who work 



in them It 



would be well if such in- 

 stitutions were endowed 

 by the rich; still better if 

 they were supported by a 

 state or a community. — 

 Editorial in " The Popular 

 Science Monthly." 



The Louis Agassiz Method. 

 Passing from bench to bench, from 

 table to table, with a suggestion here, 

 a kindly but scrutinizing glance there, 

 he made his sympathetic presence felt 

 by the wiiole establishment. No man 

 ever exercised a more genial personal 

 influence over his students and assist- 

 ants. His initiatory steps in teaching 

 ■ajnecial students of natural history were 

 /f'rt a little discouraging. Observation 

 arid comparison being in his opinion the 

 intellectual tools most indispensable to 

 the naturalist, his first lesson was one 

 in looking. He gave no assistance; 

 he simply left his student with the 

 specimen, telling him to use his eyes 

 diligently, and report upon what he 

 saw. He returned from time to time 

 to inquire after the beginner's progress, 

 but he never asked him a leading ques- 

 tion, never pointed out a single feature 



of the structure, never prompted an 

 inference or a conclusion. This pro- 

 cess lasted sometimes for days, the pro- 

 fessor requiring the pupil not only to 

 distinguish the various parts of the 

 animal, but to detect also the relation 

 of these details to more general typi- 

 cal features. His students still retain 

 amusing reminiscences of their despair 

 when thus confronted with their single 

 specimen ; no aid to be had from out- 

 side until they had wrung from it the 

 secret of its structure. But all of them 

 have recognized the fact that this one 

 lesson in looking, which forced them to 

 such careful scrutiny of the object be- 

 fore them, influenced all their subse- 

 quent habits of observation, whatever 

 field they might choose for their spec- 

 ial subject of study. — Elizabeth Cary 

 Agassiz in Louis Agassis; His Life and 

 Correspondence. 



