150 SCIENCE SKETCHES. 
The next summer, the students of the first year 
came together at Penikese, and many eager new 
men were with them. Notable among these were 
Herbert E. Copeland, the ichthyologist, whose 
brilliant record was soon cut short by death; Wil- 
liam R. Dudley, the botanist, and the anatomist 
Balfour H. Van Vleck. Wise and skilful teachers 
were present; but Agassiz was not there, and the 
sense of loss was felt above everything else. We 
met one evening in the lecture hall, and each one 
said the best that he could of the Master. The 
words that lasted longest with us were these of 
Samuel Garman, that “ he was the best friend that 
ever student had.” There could be no truer word 
‘nor nobler epitaph. We put on the walls these 
mottoes, written on cloth, and taken from Agassiz’s 
lectures : — 
Stupy NATuRE,.NOT Books. 
BE NOT AFRAID TO SAY, “I DO NOT KNOW.” 
STRIVE TO INTERPRET WHAT REALLY EXISTS. 
A LABORATORY IS A SANCTUARY WHICH NOTHING PROFANE 
SHOULD ENTER. 
These mottoes remained for fifteen years! on the 
walls of the empty building, whence they were car- 
ried as precious relics to the Laboratory at Wood’s 
Hole, which has been the lineal descendant of the 
school at Penikese. 
At the end of the summer the authorities of the 
Museum closed the doors of the Anderson School 
forever. They? had no choice in the matter, for 
1 This is given on the authority of Dr. Carl H. Eigenmann. 
2 Jules Marcou says (Life, Letters, and Works of Louis Agas- 
siz, vol. ii. p. 207): “The Anderson School of Natural History 
