CORRESPONDENCE WITH L. AGASSIZ 



watched three, are young of Palcemon, Crangon, and 

 Hippolyte. \ have full memoranda upon this subject in 

 Cambridge. Nebalia is also a genus based upon embryonic 

 forms, as this is the case with one species lately observed 

 here. The three Cumce seen at the North were actually 

 hatched from eggs of Crangon septemspinosus, Palcemon 

 vulgaris, and Hippolyte amleata. ' ' 



The Albany University 



" I deeply regret that I cannot be in Albany with 

 you ; but shall write a few lines to the committee. I 

 regret very much that such application is that for which 

 I am now least fit, otherwise I would lay out a full plan 

 in accordance with my experience in teaching. It is too 

 important a subject to be neglected by us, whenever we 

 are called upon to express our views. The chief points 

 to be settled seem to me: Independence of the institu- 

 tion from political and religious sectarianism, the con- 

 trol of the scientific interests of the institution in the 

 hands of the faculty; its pecuniary affairs entrusted to 

 trustees, the professors to have no hand in that. But to 

 secure the full attention of the professors to their duties, 

 competition in teaching should be as free as possible, 

 allowing every young man of talent to come forward as 

 free teachers and compete with the regular professors. 

 This would create a nursery of professors for other institu- 

 tions and prepare the rising generation to enter upon a 

 wider circle of usefulness. Such free teachers to have no 

 fixed salary, but only student fees. The regular profes- 

 sors a liberal fixed salary. It would be desirable that it 

 be fixed so high as to require no addition from fees, and 

 that the management of these was left entirely to the 

 trustees for the best of the institution. Liberal oppor- 

 tunities to the library, museums, laboratories, etc., so 

 fixed that no professor would be trammelled by envy or 

 jealousy. Attendance on lectures entirely at the option 

 of the students, under the advice of the professors. 

 Lectures to be occasionally delivered by the different 

 professors upon the course students ought to pursue in 

 their studies.'* 



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