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rate. Among the latest applications there are some 

 which seem to me to have higher claims than pre- 

 ceding ones. I therefore appeal to all who have al- 

 ready been admitted to state again how important it 

 may be for themselves, or for the cause of education 

 in general, that their individual case should be recog- 

 nized, as fifty persons only can be accommodated in 

 the laboratories of Penikese. To some, admission 

 next year may perhaps be quite as useful as this year. 

 Any failure to answer this request within a fortnight 

 will be considered as a resignation. 



The above is Professor Agassiz's autograph. The 

 circular to which it is appended was a written one, 

 and was, I believe, the very first that was sent to the 

 successful candidates. The letter of acceptance 

 being (at least my own was), a personal one from 

 the professor himself, such at least is my present im- 

 pression. You may be quite sure that there was no 

 "resignation" recorded to my name, and I answered 

 the communication with so much dispatch, and withal 

 so appealingly, that the return mail brought me 

 another from Professor Agassiz himself, short and to 

 the point, telling me to have no fear for or doubt of 

 my acceptance as a scholar of the school at Penikese, 



* This letter was addressed to a young man whose Christian name 

 -was so similar to a name often applied to a lady that the applicant was 

 supposed to be such. 



