678 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



Agassiz had gradually gathered about him, 

 chiefly from among his more special students, 

 a staff of assistants who were familiar with 

 his plans and shared his enthusiasm. To 

 these young friends he was warmly attached. 

 It would be impossible to name them all, but 

 the knot of younger men who were for years 

 his daily associates in scientific work, whose 

 sympathy and cooperation he so much valued, 

 and who are now in their turn growing old in 

 the service of science, will read the roll-call 

 between the lines, and know that none are 

 forgotten here. Years before his own death, 

 he had the pleasure of seeing several of them 

 called to important scientific positions, and it 

 was a cogent evidence to him of the educa- 

 tional efficiency of the Museum, that it had 

 supplied to the country so many trained in- 

 vestigators and teachers. Through them he 

 himself teaches still. There was a prophecy 

 in Lowell's memorial lines : — 



" He was a Teacher : why be grieved for him 

 Whose living word still stimulates the air ? 

 In endless file shall loving scholars come, 

 The glow of his transmitted touch to share." 



Beside these, there were several older, ex- 

 perienced naturalists, who were permanently 

 or transiently engaged at the Museum. Some 



