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education in whatever department of knowledge is 

 likely to have a greater influence on the future 

 character of our nation than even the thousands 

 and hundred thousands and millions which we 

 have already spent and are spending to raise the 

 many to material ease and comfort." 



Of the older teachers of biology in America, the 

 men who were born between 1825 and 1850, nearly 

 all who have reached eminence have been at one 

 time or another pupils of Agassiz. The names 

 of LeConte, Hartt, Shaler, Scudder, Wilder, 

 Hyatt, Putnam, Packard, Clark, Alexander Agassiz, 

 Morse, Brooks, Whitman, Minot, Carman, Faxon, 

 Fewkes, James, Niles, and many others not less 

 worthily known, come to our thoughts at once as 

 evidence of this statement, as well as those of 

 Steindachner, J. A. Allen, Ball, Uhler, Marcou, 

 Bickmore, Lyman, Girard, Ordway, St. John, 

 Anthony, and others who have won celebrity in 

 scientific work outside the class-room. Those 

 naturalists who, like Gray, Dana, Baird, Lesley, 

 Kirtland, Engelmann, Wachsmuth, Hagen, Les- 

 quereux, Stimpson, and others, were not pupils, 

 were associates and friends. 



Even as late as 1873, when Agassiz died, the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology was almost the 

 only school in America where the eager student of 

 natural history could find the work he wanted. 

 The colleges generally taught only the elements of 

 any of the sciences. Twenty years ago original 

 research was scarcely considered as among the 

 functions of the American college. Such inves- 

 tigators as America had were for the most part 



