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His tall, robust figure, his broad shoulders bend- 

 ing a little under the weight of years, his large round 

 face lit up by kindly dark-brown eyes, his cheery 

 smile, the enthusiastic tones of his voice, his roll- 

 ing gait, like that of " a man who had walked 

 much over ploughed ground," all these entered 

 into our first as well as our last impression's of 

 Agassiz. He greeted us with great warmth as we 

 landed. He looked into our faces to justify him- 

 self in making choice of us among the many whom 

 he might have chosen. 



The roll of the Anderson School has never been 

 published, and I can only restore a part of it from 

 memory. Among those whose names come to my 

 mind as I write are Dr. Charles O. Whitman, of 

 the University of Chicago; Dr. William K. Brooks, 

 of Johns Hopkins ; Dr. Frank H. Snow, now Chan- 

 cellor of the University of Kansas ; Dr. W. O. 

 Crosby, of the Boston Society of Natural History; 

 Charles Sedgwick Minot, Samuel Garman, Walter 

 Faxon, J. Walter Fewkes, all of these still con- 

 nected with the work at Cambridge; Ernest 

 Ingersoll, then just beginning his literary work; 

 Professor J. G. Scott, of the Normal School at 

 Westfield ; Professor Stowell, of the school at 

 Cortland ; Professor Austin C. Apgar, of Trenton, 

 N. J. ; Professor Fernald, of Maine; Miss Susan 

 Hallowell, of Wellesley College; Miss Mary A. 

 Beaman (now Mrs. Joralemon, of the Belmont 

 School, California) ; Mr. E. A. Gastman, of Illi- 

 nois, and other well-known instructors. With 

 these was the veteran teacher of botany at Mount 

 Holyoke Seminary, Lydia W. Shattuck, with her 



