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The Days of a Man [^1873 



lobsters, J. W. Fewkes, ethnologist, and W. O. Crosby, 

 mineralogist, were also students of promise. 



Samuel Garman, assistant in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology and general helper to Agassiz, 

 was a conspicuous figure, being then a breezy young 

 fellow with wide sombrero and flowing red necktie, 

 who had recently returned from an expedition to 

 the Upper Missouri, where he was associated with 

 Marsh and Cope. He became a leading authority 

 on sharks and remained for more than fifty years 

 in the Museum, settling down there into a quiet 

 and gray old age. 

 Success- All the persons mentioned above were hoping to 

 ("^ ^ become leaders in science. Others were equally 

 ambitious to be useful as teachers. Among the 

 latter, Lydia W. Shattuck, professor of Botany at 

 Mount Holyoke, was a great favorite, as was also 

 her assistant, Susan Bowen, who in 1875 became 

 my wife. Other successful teachers were Susan 

 Hallowell, first professor of Biology at Wellesley 

 College, Austin C. Apgar, bird enthusiast at the 

 Trenton Normal School, J. G. Scott of the Westfield 

 Normal, Franklin W. Hooper, afterw^ard director of 

 the Brooklyn Art Institute, H. H. Straight of the 

 Oswego Normal, Mary Beaman of Binghamton, 

 now Mrs. Joralemon, and Zella Reid, now Mrs. 

 Cronyn, a pupil of Horace Mann at Antioch College, 

 Yellow Springs, Ohio. Years afterward (for old 

 times' sake, I suppose) Mrs. Cronyn sent her two 

 sons from Massachusetts to study under me at 

 Stanford University. 



Agassiz was destined not to meet with us a 

 second time, for he died in December, 1873. In the 



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