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transfer them to strong alcohol. A species of round 

 worm inhabits the flesh and muscles of certain fishes. 

 With the more common species of salt water worms r 

 allow them first to die in fresh water, and then pre- 

 serve like the others. One species floats upon the 

 surface of the ocean, when it is calm. The best 

 time to collect such specimens is from sunset to nine 

 or ten o'clock at night," etc. But it is quite impos- 

 sible to put upon paper all the notes which we col- 

 lect for our note books; yet we hunt everywhere, 

 we fill bottles and jars, and our tables, shelves, and 

 the floor, even, is filled with them: specimens, speci- 

 mens, specimens, EVERYWHERE. Our professors lec- 

 ture to us of nothing else; our time is spent in secur- 

 ing and dissecting them, yet the more we learn the 

 more there seems to be to learn about them. 



LECTURES: AGASSIZ. 



It is from such sketches of our lectures as those 

 just given, that the reader will obtain a glimpse, faint 

 and .imperfect though it may be, of a single day's, do- 

 ings at Penikese. The crumbs that have been garnered 

 thus for your benefit would form but a part, and a 

 small part at that, of a single day's work. On an av- 

 erage, four lectures a day and often a fifth in the eve- 

 ning, besides laboratory and field work, form our 

 regular daily task; then we write our notes out in the 

 evening. Do you wonder where our time for rest 

 comes in? We have none our work is rest; and yet 

 there is not one of us who does not enter into all this 

 willingly. A certain President of Amherst College 

 once asked the late Professor Charles U. Shepard, 

 the well-known mineralogist, what he considered the 

 "three most important elements of success to the 

 young man during his college course." The Profess- 

 or replied, without an instant's hesitation, "the first 

 is work!" Then with a pause of several moments, 

 he continued, "and the second is WORK!" and again 



