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table. The opportunity that Agassiz 

 offered these young men was precisely 

 that which he himself would most have 

 longed for in his younger time, and he 

 interpreted other men's desires in the 

 light of his own character. What would 

 not he have given for such a chance to 

 do original work under the immediate 

 eye of a master, in constant partnership 

 with a celebrated investigator f 



