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best possible way ? His tliouglits and hopes rose to expectations 

 higher than any of us then understood. 



His tall, robust figure, broad shoulders bending a little under 

 the weight of years, his large round face lit up by kindly dark- 

 brown eyes, his cheery smile, the enthusiastic tones of his voice, 

 all these entered into our first as well as our last impressions of 

 Agassiz. He greeted us with great warmth as we landed. He 

 looked into our faces to justify himself in making choice of us 

 among the many whom he might have chosen. 



The roll of the Anderson School has never been published, and 

 I can only restore a part of it from memory. Among those whose 

 names come to my mind as I write are Dr. Charles O. Whitman, 

 now of Clark University; Dr. William K. Brooks, of Johns Hop- 

 kins ; Dr. Frank H. Snow, now Chancellor of the University 

 of Kansas ; Dr. W. O. Crosby, of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, then a boy from Colorado interested in rocks and min- 

 erals ; Samuel Garman, Walter Faxon, Walter Fewkes, and 

 Charles Sedgwick Minot, all of them still connected with the 

 work at Cambridge ; Ernest Ingersoll, then just beginning his 

 literary work ; Prof. Scott, of the Normal School at Westfield ; 

 Prof. Stowell, of the school at Cortland ; Prof. Apgar, of Trenton, 

 N. J. ; Prof. Fernald, of Maine ; Miss Susan Hallowell, of Welles- 

 ley College ; Miss Mary Beaman (Mrs, Joralemon) ; Mr. E. A. 

 Gastman, of Illinois ; and other well-known instructors. With 

 these was the veteran teacher of botany at Mount Holyoke Semi- 

 nary, Miss Lydia W. Shattuck, with her pupil and associate. Miss 

 Susan Bowen. Prof. H. H. Straight and his bride, both then 

 teachers in the State Normal School at Oswego, were also with 

 us. These four, whom all of us loved and respected, were the first 

 of our number to be claimed by death. 



Among our teachers, besides Agassiz, were Burt G. Wilder, 

 Edward S. Morse, Alfred Mayer, Frederick W. Putnam, then 

 young men of growing fame, with Arnold Guyot and Count 

 Pourtalfes, early associates of Agassiz, already in the fullness of 

 years. Mrs. Agassiz was present at every lecture, note-book in 

 hand, and her genial personality did much to bind the company 

 together. 



The old barn on the island had been hastily converted into a 

 dining-hall and lecture-room. A new floor had been put in, but 

 the doors and walls remained unchanged, and the swallows' nests 

 were undisturbed under the eaves. The sheep had been turned 

 out, the horse-stalls were changed to a kitchen, and on the floor 

 of the barn, instead of the hay-wagon, were placed three long 

 tables. At the head of one of these sat Agassiz. At his right 

 hand always stood a movable blackboard, for he seldom spoke 

 without a piece of chalk in his hand. He would often give us a 



