60 LOUIS AGASSIZ 



fected his work comes the habit of 

 always working in partnership. This 

 was no accident, but a deep-seated trait 

 of character. As Lowell says of him, 

 "He basked and bourgeoned in copart- 

 nery" 5 and we have already remarked 

 that this fell in with his love of teaching. 

 Of an affectionate intellect, he was al- 

 ways the head of a troop of assistants, 

 sometimes paid and sometimes voluntary. 

 Money evidently seemed to Agassiz as 

 minor a question where another man 

 was concerned as he had always made 

 it for himself ; and this unstable busi- 

 ness basis became the source of serious 

 anxiety for him and deep dissatisfaction 

 for his fellow- workers. One embittered 

 assistant, who has sketched the scientific 

 factory at NeucMtel, remarks that the 

 arrangement between Agassiz and his 

 aids was that, if they needed money at a 

 time when he had any, he should give 

 them some, and that in any case several 

 of them were to be provided for at his 



