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with great warmth as we landed. He looked into our faces to 

 justify himself in making choice of us among the many whom he 

 might have chosen. Among the students in the school at Penikese, 

 who come to my mind as I write, are Dr. Charles O. Whitman, 

 now of the University of Chicago; Dr. William K. Brooks, of 

 Johns Hopkins; Dr. Frank H. Snow, afterwards Chancellor of the 

 University of Kansas; Dr. W. O. Crosby, of the Boston Society 

 of Natural History, then a boy from Colorado interested in rocks 

 and minerals; Samuel Garman, Walter Faxon, Walter Fewkes, 

 and Charles Sedgwick Minot, all of them still connected with the 

 work at Cambridge; Ernest Ingersoll, then just beginning his 

 literary work; Professor J. G. Scott, of the Normal School at 

 Westfield; Professor Stowell, of the school at Cortland; Professor 

 Apgar, of Trenton, N. J.; Professor Fernald, of Maine; Miss 

 Susan Hallowell, of Wellesley College; Miss Mary Beaman 

 (Mrs. Joralemon); Mr. E. A. Gastman, of Illinois; and other 

 well-known instructors. With these was the veteran teacher of 

 botany at Mount Holyoke Seminary, Miss Lydia W. Shattuck, 

 with her pupil and associate, Miss Susan Bowen. Professor H. H. 

 Straight and his bride, both then teachers in the State Normal 

 School at Oswego, were also with us. These four, whom all of us 

 loved and respected, were the first of our number to be claimed by 

 death. 



" Among our teachers, besides Agassiz, were Burt G. Wilder, 

 Edward S. Morse, Alfred Mayor, Frederick Guyot and Count 

 Pourtales, early associates of Agassiz, already in the fullness of 

 years. Mrs. Agassiz was present at every lecture, note-book in 

 hand, and her genial personality did much to bind the company 

 together. 



" The old barn on the island had been hastily converted into a 

 dining-hall and lecture-room. A new floor had been put in, but 

 the doors and walls remained unchanged, and the swallows' 

 nests were undisturbed under the eaves. The sheep had been 

 turned out, the horse stalls were changed to a kitchen, and on the 

 floor of the barn instead of the hay-wagon, were placed three long 

 tables. At the head of one of these sat Agassiz. At his right hand 



