HORACE MANN. 169 
year so full of hard work, conscientious, unselfish, self-sacrificing strug- 
gle that the world might know more, and the cause of science be ad- 
vanced ? 
In his earliest youth Horace Mann drew in from his father's careful 
teachings the love of Nature, which has since been his constant joy. 
Often would he softly open the door of his father’s study, and come 
silently to his father’s side, waiting for the leisure which would give 
him some of the marvellous stories about the earth and its inhabitants, 
which in his mind took the place of the unrealities of fairyland so dear 
to most children. 
Chemistry was the delight of his boyhood, and his father’s house 
contained a laboratory, in which he spent many an hour, often to the 
great anxiety of his family, who dreaded the usual results of boyish 
experiments with powerful reagents. Inanimate matter did not satisfy 
him, and after much thought, although opposed by most of his friends, 
who wished him to receive a collegiate education, he determined to 
devote himself to the study of Nature, entering Professor Agassiz’ 
School as a student of zoology and geology. This was at the time 
when the present museum was recently built, and the hard manual 
labour of moving and arranging heavy specimens, which he so readily 
undertook, seriously affected his health. He was at this time also 
deeply interested in conchology, and most especially in botany, and it 
was from this latter interest that the companionship and friendship 
commenced, which for the last four or five years have so closely united 
us. When Dr. Asa Gray was told that I was soon to visit the Ha- 
waiian Islands, he asked me to collect the very peculiar flora of that 
group, and suggested the propriety of asking Horace Mann to accom- 
pany me. It was a short notice, but his friends advised him to go, 
and he joined me in California. From that time, for more than a year 
we were constant companions, and many a long ride, many a weary 
walk, did we share. For more than six months we kept house toge- 
ther in Honolulu, and from the first day to the last he was the same 
modest, retiring, hard-working, unselfish, conscientious man. Tho- 
roughly alive to all the beauties and wonders of Nature there surround- 
ing him, he often wrote home that he enjoyed every moment, and often 
indeed have I seen him in perfect ecstasy over the discovery of some 
new plaut after a hard climb up some island precipice. 
With his rich collections he returned to Cambridge, and was soon 
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