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for success mainly on your own labors, should not 

 more aptly receive its designation from a name which 

 has become almost a household word wherever sci- 

 ence is known and appreciated, that of Louis Agas- 

 siz. " Thus in a^contest of generosity will two names 

 be handed to posterity. 



Let me here say a few words, and a few words 

 only, of the donor of Penikese Island: Mr. John An- 

 derson of New York, who generously gave the island 

 for the school, and seconded his gift by a donation of 

 fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for its erection and 

 maintenance. This school, it will be -remembered, 

 has been styled both "The Agassiz School of Natural 

 History at Penikese" and "The Anderson School of 

 Natural History at Penikese." The former, from its 

 founder; and the latter, from its donor; but there 

 seems to me no necessity for either injustice or con- 

 fusion in the matter, whichever of these titles are 

 made use of, provided it be borne in mind that the 

 Anderson School was simply a financial and substan- 

 tial realization, upon a larger scale, of the Agassiz 

 School of Nautucket. In the winter previous to the 

 opening of Penikese the Agassiz School had been 

 conceived, arranged for, and advertised, from the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Cambridge, 

 Mass., (December, 14 1872) as a "Course of Instruc- 

 tion in Natural History to be delivered by the seaside, 

 in Nantucket, during the Summer Months, chiefly de- 

 signed for Teachers who propose to introduce the 

 Study into their Schools, and for Students preparing 

 to become Teachers." No fair minded person will, 

 then, for an instant, regard it as an injustice to either 

 of the noble men to recognize the school by either or 

 both of these titles; for it comprised both. I regard 

 Mr. Anderson's motive in making the whole donation 

 as purely and wholly philanthropic. A simple, short 

 paragraph, clipped some years later, from a news- 

 paper, whose date even is unknown to me, reads: 

 "Mr. John Anderson, the founder of the Agassiz 

 College, at Penikese Island, died at Paris, France, 



