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navigator, scholar, diplomat, 4, 

 5-7 ; great-aunt, Abigail Stilwell, a 

 great dame, 9-10 ; father, Dr. Na- 

 thaniel Burger Shaler, physician in 

 Kentucky, 11-16; ancestors on the 

 maternal side, the Southgates, in 

 England and in America, 16; first 

 settled in Virginia, 16 ; great-grand- 

 father, Wright Southgate, Vir- 

 ginia merchant and planter, 16; 

 grandfather, Richard Southgate, 

 lawyer, early established in Ken- 

 tucky, 17; 18-19, 21; grandmo- 

 ther, daughter of Dr. John Hinde, 

 surgeon in the British navy, a large 

 figure in her time and place, 19; 

 mother, Ann Hinde Southgate 

 Shaler, 21-22; inheritances from 

 these ancestors, 23-24; recollec- 

 tions of childhood, 26-48; first 

 memories, 27 ; playing at war, 28- 

 29 ; fight with a bully, 30-31 ; pass- 

 ing from childhood to youth, 31; 

 becomes an expert rifle-shot and 

 fencer, 43 ; a memorable fencing- 

 contest, 44-46; the duelling code, 

 46-48 ; desultory education, 49-66 ; 

 early interest in objects of natural 

 history, 49, 52, 53; interest in 

 game-cocks, 50-52 ; introduction 

 to geology, 53-55; turned toward 

 astronomy, 55-56; early attitude 

 toward religion, 57-58; awaken- 

 ing love of nature, 58-59; formal 

 schooling first at the barracks 

 school, in Newport, afterward with 

 a Swiss tutor, 59-63 ; youthful love 

 of philosophy, 63 ; first visits from 

 home, 66-70; a journey to Massa- 

 chusetts with his father, 68-69; 

 first visits to Frankfort and impres- 

 sions of it, 71-75; a friend of his 

 youth, Thomas F. Marshall, 77-79 ; 

 a brief contact with Abraham Lin- 

 coln, 79-80 ; member of a debating 

 society discussing States' Rights, 

 86-87 ; at Cambridge under a tutor, 

 90-92 ; first meeting with Agassiz, 



93 ; becomes a pupil of Agassiz, 95 ; 

 his examination, 96; first work in 

 the laboratory, 98-100 ; the Zoologi- 

 cal Club, 103 ; relations with scien- 

 tific men in Boston and Cambridge, 

 104-111, 113-117; some college 

 companions, 118-129 ; cruising and 

 camping, 130-133; geological ex- 

 peditions, 139-169; in the Gulf of 

 St. Lawrence, 139-149; on the 

 island of Anticosti and the Labra- 

 dor coast, 150-169 ; fitting for the 

 duties of a soldier, 174 ; at Fort In- 

 dependence, Boston Harbor, 174- 

 176; last year at Harvard, 179- 

 192 ; work and play of student life, 

 179-184 ; economies of the Southern 

 students, 187-188 ; examinations 

 for his degree, 189-192 ; off to the 

 war, 207, 210, 211 ; in the Federal 

 service, captain of the Fifth Ken- 

 tucky Battery, 219-224; return to 

 Cambridge in 1864, 224; his first 

 university appointment, 225; takes 

 charge of the regular instruction in 

 zoology and geology in the Law- 

 rence Scientific School, 225; first 

 visit to European scenes of geologi- 

 cal interest, 226, 228; walks and 

 talks abroad, 228-246; study of 

 mountain structure in the Alps, 228- 

 229 ; acquaintances with Swiss geo- 

 logists, 229, 232 ; tramps with Ed- 

 ward Tawney, English geologist, 

 229-233; in Italy, 236-237; in 

 Paris, 237-238; in Germany, 238- 

 246; teaching and exploring, 247- 

 254 ; investigations for the United 

 States Geological Survey and the 

 Coast Survey, 247, 249 ; unearthing 

 fossil remains of elephants at Big 

 Bone Lick, 247-248; plans for de- 

 veloping the work at the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, 248; va- 

 rious scientific expeditions, 251, 

 253, 254; abroad again, 1872-1873, 

 255-269; visits to London, Cam- 

 bridge, Oxford, 257-265; in Scot- 



