INDEX 



ABOLITION and Abolitionists, 79, 82, 

 85, 86, 112, 113, 242. 



Acland, Dr. Henry W., 262, 263, 264. 



Adams, John Quincy, 78. 



Administrative work, Shaler's, 386- 

 401. 



dStna, 318, 319, 321; study of, 405- 

 406. 



Agassiz, Louis, 90, 92; Shaler's first 

 meeting with, 93 ; personal quality 

 of, 94 ; his ease in captivating men, 

 94-95; his methods of teaching, 

 95-96, 103-104; his laboratory, 

 95, 96, 97, 98, 100, 127, 128; Sha- 

 ler's first work under, 97-99; qual- 

 ity of his lectures, 101; a note of 

 Shaler's on, 103 n.; bouts with Wil- 

 liam B. Rogers, 105, 116-117; 106, 

 107, 110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 118; 

 some students of, 119-129; distress 

 of, at outbreak of the Civil War, 170- 

 171; work of his students, 179, 180, 

 181; swift accumulation of -collec- 

 tions and books for his establish- 

 ment, 182; 188, 189, 190, 191, 194, 

 195, 200-201, 208, 209, 225, 226; 

 letters by, 226-227, 250, 251, 270, 

 271, 297-298; letters by Shaler to, 

 248; a dinner party at his house, 

 363 ; 426. 



Agassiz, Mrs., 298. 



Agassiz's glacial theory, 265. 



Agassiz's museum. See Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology. 



Albany, Ky., 287. 



Alder Mine, the, 335. 



Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 428, 429. 



Aletsch glacier, 229. 



Alexandria, Egypt, 402. 



"Alfred the Great," 443. 



Algiers, William Shaler's Sketches of, 

 7; memorial of William Shaler in, 

 7; 193. 



All Souls College, Oxford, Eng., 262. 



Alps, 228; great glaciers of, 229; 234, 

 235. 



"American Highways," 427. 



American Social Science Associations, 

 249. 



"Americans" vs. Provincials, 143, 

 144, 158. 



Anderson, John, 272. 



Anderson School, 271. 



Andover, Me., 136. 



Andover Theological Seminary, 433. 



Andrew, Gov. John A., 197. 



Animals, Shaler's early interest in, 

 49; childhood studies of spiders, 

 insects, and birds, 49-50 ; first ac- 

 quaintance with a menagerie, 52; 

 playing with the elephant and the 

 camel, 53; companionship with 

 dogs, 53, 180; a small collection of 

 living, 184, 185; study in Dresden 

 Zoological Gardens, 241. 



Anticosti, island, expedition to, 139- 

 160; description of, 150-152; col- 

 lecting fossils on, 152-153; bear- 

 hunting, 153-154; an unpleasant 

 adventure, 154-155 ; another hunt- 

 ing incident, 155-156; loneliness of 

 life on the island, 156; the light- 

 house-keepers, 156-157; tale of the 

 original gun on Bad Rock, 157; 

 an admirable hermitage, 157 ; 158, 

 159, 160, 162; scientific results of 

 the expedition, 166-168; 171, 188, 

 253, 425. 



Anticosti lighthouses, 162. 



Appalachian system, 162. 



Appleton Chapel, 411, 422. 



Aquaria, 206. 



Archaean district of Canada, 54. 



Architectural School, 355. 



Argyle, Duke of, 259, 260. 



Aristocracy, a landed, 33. 



