A GASSIZ A T PEKINESE. 1 5 I 1 



no college could be found which would spare the 

 small sum needed for its maintenance. No rich 

 men came forward as others had done in the past, 

 men who would not stand by " to see so brave a 

 man struggle without aid." For nearly twenty 

 years the buildings stood on the island just as we 

 had left them in 1874; an old sea-captain in charge 

 of them until the winter of 1891, when he was 

 drowned in a storm. A year or two later the 

 buildings were burned to the ground, perhaps by 

 lightning. 



But while the island of Penikese is deserted, the 

 impulse which came from Agassiz's work there 

 still lives, and is felt in every field of American 

 science. With all appreciation of the rich streams 

 which in late years have come to us from many 

 sources, and especially from the deep insight and 

 resolute truthfulness of Germany, it is still true that 

 the school of all schools which has had most influ- 



at Penikese Island did not survive long after Agassiz's death. 

 The appeals for aid addressed by Mr. Alexander Agassiz to the 

 superintendents of public institutions and presidents of State 

 Boards of Education of the several States did not find the ready 

 response necessary for the support of the school ; and the Ander- 

 son School was soon a thing of the past. But if its existence was 

 ephemeral, it set a most beneficial example, soon followed by per- 

 manent schools of the same sort . . . first those at Wood's Hole, 

 Mass., one under the direction of the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion, the other directed by Mr. C. O. Whitman; second one at 

 Annisquam, and afterwards at several other places on the Atlan- 

 tic and Pacific Coasts under the direction of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, the State University of California, and the Leland 

 Stanford, Jr., University, while Mr. Alexander Agassiz . . . has 

 since built a fine laboratory at Castle Hill . . . where researches 

 on living marine animals are made every summer under his direc- 

 tion and at his expense." 



