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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OP 
  THE 
  CALIFORNIA 
  

  

  there 
  were 
  any 
  that 
  became 
  weary 
  with 
  tlie 
  heat 
  and 
  burthen 
  of 
  the 
  day, 
  they 
  

   have 
  dropped 
  by 
  the 
  way-side. 
  The 
  young, 
  the 
  earnest, 
  the 
  ambitious, 
  are 
  

   scattered 
  over 
  the 
  globe, 
  searching, 
  working, 
  and 
  studying 
  to 
  increase 
  our 
  

   knowledge. 
  The 
  men 
  of 
  mark 
  who 
  have 
  been 
  students 
  under 
  him 
  are 
  not 
  few 
  ; 
  

   although, 
  perhaps, 
  differing 
  from 
  many 
  of 
  his 
  views, 
  they 
  are 
  working 
  with 
  hia 
  

   indomitable 
  ardor. 
  From 
  him 
  they 
  have 
  learned 
  that 
  their 
  real 
  student 
  life 
  but 
  

   just 
  commences 
  when 
  they 
  quit 
  the 
  college 
  halls 
  for 
  the 
  broader 
  and 
  more 
  sug- 
  

   gestive 
  fields 
  where 
  animal 
  life 
  exhibits 
  itself 
  in 
  a 
  thousand 
  new 
  relations, 
  and 
  

   suggests 
  new 
  methods 
  and 
  solutions. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  last 
  quarter 
  of 
  a 
  century 
  there 
  has 
  arisen 
  in 
  America 
  a 
  large 
  body 
  of 
  

   the 
  ablest 
  naturalists, 
  geologists, 
  and 
  paL-Bontologists 
  ; 
  and 
  I 
  attribute 
  the 
  thor- 
  

   oughness 
  of 
  their 
  investigations, 
  their 
  enthusiasm 
  and 
  success, 
  to 
  the 
  direct 
  and 
  

   reflected 
  example 
  of 
  Agassiz. 
  

  

  But 
  the 
  impetus 
  which 
  he 
  gave 
  to 
  the 
  interesting 
  study 
  of 
  natural 
  liistory, 
  to 
  

   fossil 
  icthyology, 
  to 
  geology, 
  and 
  especially 
  to 
  glacial 
  action, 
  hud 
  its 
  effect 
  upon 
  

   all 
  other 
  branches 
  of 
  science. 
  Remarkably 
  well 
  versed 
  in 
  every 
  science, 
  and 
  

   intimate 
  with 
  the 
  scientists 
  in 
  their 
  specialties, 
  he 
  imparted 
  to 
  them, 
  as 
  the 
  

   magnet 
  to 
  the 
  steel, 
  an 
  equal 
  amount 
  of 
  his 
  force, 
  directness, 
  and 
  thoroughness 
  ; 
  

   he 
  cheered 
  the 
  struggling, 
  reinvigoratcd 
  the 
  diffident, 
  and 
  diffused 
  a 
  halo 
  of 
  at- 
  

   tractiveness 
  around 
  each 
  one's 
  study. 
  

  

  He 
  was 
  especially 
  earnest 
  and 
  forcible 
  in 
  expressing 
  his 
  views 
  of 
  scientific 
  

   education. 
  He 
  contended 
  for 
  broader 
  studies 
  than 
  those 
  prescribed 
  in 
  the 
  old, 
  

   dogmatic 
  curriculum 
  ; 
  for 
  something 
  more 
  than 
  heavy, 
  reiterated 
  book- 
  

   learning. 
  He 
  demanded 
  original 
  research, 
  exhaustive 
  observation, 
  and 
  rigorous 
  

   comparison. 
  And 
  whilst 
  garnering 
  the 
  treasures, 
  he 
  was 
  peculiarly 
  chary 
  of 
  

   propounding 
  hypotheses 
  and 
  theories. 
  To 
  him 
  the 
  time 
  had 
  not 
  come 
  for 
  lay- 
  

   ing 
  down 
  the 
  law 
  of 
  development. 
  He 
  could 
  not 
  bear 
  with 
  superficial 
  study 
  : 
  

   a 
  man 
  should 
  give 
  his 
  whole 
  life 
  to 
  the 
  object 
  he 
  had 
  undertaken 
  to 
  investigate. 
  

   He 
  felt 
  that 
  desultory, 
  isolated, 
  spasmodic 
  working 
  avails 
  nothing, 
  but 
  curses 
  

   with 
  narrowness 
  and 
  mediocrity. 
  Although 
  strongly 
  wedded 
  to 
  his 
  particular 
  

   •objects 
  and 
  course, 
  he 
  fully 
  realized 
  and 
  ably 
  advocated 
  the 
  equal 
  value 
  and 
  im- 
  

   portance 
  of 
  the 
  other 
  special 
  branches. 
  He 
  appreciated 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  tastes 
  

   and 
  peculiar 
  mental 
  fiber 
  of 
  others 
  would 
  lead 
  them 
  in 
  other 
  channels, 
  and 
  he 
  

   looked 
  forward 
  to 
  the 
  time 
  when 
  their 
  results 
  should 
  be 
  brought 
  into 
  harmony 
  

   with 
  his 
  own. 
  

  

  We 
  hear 
  so 
  much 
  of 
  weak, 
  inconsequent 
  condemnation 
  of 
  specialists, 
  that 
  an 
  

   erroneous 
  but 
  wide-spread 
  misapprehension 
  would 
  appear 
  to 
  exist 
  upon 
  the 
  sub- 
  

   ject. 
  In 
  every-day 
  life, 
  who 
  hesitates 
  to 
  measure 
  out 
  commendation 
  to 
  the 
  

   blacksmith, 
  the 
  printer, 
  the 
  farmer, 
  the 
  jeweler, 
  the 
  artist, 
  the 
  merchant, 
  for 
  

   excellence 
  in 
  their 
  specialties 
  ? 
  The 
  steamship, 
  the 
  mansion, 
  the 
  bridge, 
  are 
  

   but 
  the 
  carefully 
  combined 
  results 
  of 
  men's 
  labors 
  in 
  many 
  special 
  trades 
  ; 
  and 
  

   the 
  strength 
  and 
  beauty 
  of 
  every 
  structure 
  and 
  work 
  are 
  great 
  and 
  pleasing 
  just 
  

   in 
  proportion 
  as 
  the 
  special 
  workmen 
  are 
  skilled. 
  The 
  moulding 
  of 
  all 
  their 
  

   results 
  into 
  one 
  harmonious 
  body 
  is 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  another 
  specialist, 
  who 
  has 
  the 
  

   comprehension 
  to 
  properly 
  adjust 
  and 
  aggregate 
  them. 
  

  

  