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education in whatever department of knowledge is 
likely to have a greater influence on the future 
character of our nation than even the thousands 
and hundred thousands and millions which we 
have already spent and are spending to raise the 
many to material ease and comfort.” 
Of the older teachers of biology in America, the 
men who were born between 1825 and 1850, nearly 
all who have reached eminence have been at one 
time or another pupils of Agassiz. The names 
of LeConte, Hartt, Shaler, Scudder, Wilder, 
‘Hyatt, Putnam, Packard, Clark, Alexander Agassiz, 
Morse, Brooks, Whitman, Minot, Garman, Faxon, 
Fewkes, James, Niles, and many others not less 
worthily known, come to our thoughts at once as 
evidence of this statement, as well as those of 
Steindachner, J. A. Allen, Dall, Uhler, Marcou, 
Bickmore, Lyman, Girard, Ordway, St. John, 
Anthony, and others who have won celebrity in 
scientific work outside the class-room. Those 
naturalists who, like Gray, Dana, Baird, Lesley, 
Kirtland, Engelmann, Wachsmuth, Hagen, Les- 
quereux, Stimpson, and others, were not pupils, 
were associates and friends. , 
Even as late as 1873, when Agassiz died, the 
Museum of Comparative Zodlogy was almost the 
only school in America where the eager student of 
natural history could find the work he wanted. 
The colleges generally taught only the elements of 
any of the sciences. Twenty years ago original 
research was scarcely considered as among the 
functions of the American college. Such inves- 
tigators as America had were for the most: part 
