The Days of a Man 



Anderson 



School 



dosed 



STUDY NATURE, NOT BOOKS 



BE NOT AFRAID TO SAY, "l DO NOT KNOW" 

 STRIVE TO INTERPRET WHAT REALLY EXISTS 



A LABORATORY IS A SANCTUARY WHICH NOTHING 

 PROFANE SHOULD ENTER 



These striking phrases, written on cloth, were left 

 for fifteen years in the empty building, whence 

 they were then carried by my student Eigenmann 

 (of whom more later) to the Marine Station at 

 Woods Hole, in some degree the natural successor 

 of Penikese. 



With the end of the second summer that of 

 1874 the Anderson School closed forever. There 

 was nothing to do except pay the debts and shut 

 the doors. Agassiz being gone, even the small sum 

 necessary to carry on the work could nowhere be 

 obtained. In the eyes of the business man for 

 whom it was named, the venture was a failure. For 

 nearly twenty years, therefore, the buildings stood 

 just as we left them, in the charge of Captain 

 Flanders, who was drowned in a storm in the winter 

 of 1891. A year or two later they were struck by 

 lightning and burned to the ground, leaving the 

 island once more to the old farmhouse, the barn, 

 the willow by the spring, and a flock of sheep. 



But while Penikese is deserted, 1 the impulse 

 which came from Agassiz's work there still lives, 

 and is deeplv felt in everv field of American science. 

 For with all due appreciation of the rich streams 



1 This word I retain advisedly, even though the state of Massachusetts for 

 a time made the island a refuge for lepers. 



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