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$55,000 by Agassiz, and $50,000 by the State. The 

 remainder was collected by popular subscription. The 

 hold which Agassiz had on the affections of his miners 

 at Calumet is shown by a subscription of $1215 from 

 1233 employees at a time when the Calumet & Hecla 

 Mining Company was not employing more than 1400 men. 



Thanks to Agassiz's care and his lavish financial as- 

 sistance, the growth of the Museum proceeded steadily ; 

 not only the building and the popular exhibition rooms, 

 but also the scientific materials and the resources that 

 made them available to students who were competent to 

 use them. By 1882, the northwest corner piece was 

 completed. This left the rest of the main structure for 

 the future extensions to be devoted to natural science, 

 the south wing having been allotted to the Peabody 

 Museum of Archaeology. 



The latest interest of Louis Agassiz suffered a differ- 

 ent fate. Mr. John Anderson, of New York, had given 

 the Island of Penikese and a fund of $50,000 to the 

 elder Agassiz for the purpose of founding a summer 

 school of marine zoology. This' school, opened in the 

 summer of 1873, was the first of its kind in America, 

 the pioneer of all the marine laboratories and zoological 

 stations since founded along our shores. 



Penikese is a little island of about one hundred acres, 

 situated at the extreme entrance of Buzzard's Bay, on 

 the south shore of Massachusetts. From the first, Alex- 

 ander Agassiz had been opposed to establishing the 

 school on this spot, since he foresaw the practical diffi- 

 culties of managing it in such an inaccessible locality. 

 Nevertheless, on his father's death he undertook as a 

 sacred duty the uncongenial task of directing the school. 

 With some misgiving he started to organize the in- 



