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no college could be found which would spare the 
small sum needed for its maintenance. No rich 
men came forward as others had done in the past, 
men who would not stand by “to see so brave a 
man struggle without aid.” For nearly twenty 
years the buildings stood on the island just as we 
had left them in 1874; an old sea-captain in charge 
of them until the winter of 1891, when he was 
drowned in a storm. A year or two later the 
buildings were burned to the ground, perhaps by 
lightning. 
But while the island of Penikese is deserted, the 
impulse which came from Agassiz’s work there 
still lives, and is felt in every field of American 
science. With all appreciation of the rich streams 
which in late years have come to us from many 
sources, and especially from the deep insight and 
resolute truthfulness of Germany, it is still true that 
the school of all schools which has had most influ- 
at Penikese Island did not survive long after Agassiz’s death. 
‘The appeals for aid addressed by Mr. Alexander Agassiz to the 
superintendents of public institutions and presidents of State 
Boards of Education of the several States did not find the ready 
response necessary for the support of the school; and the Ander- 
son School was soon a thing of the past. But if its existence was 
ephemeral, it set a most beneficial example, soon followed by per- 
manent schools of the same sort . . . first those at Wood’s Hole, 
Mass., one under the direction of the United States Fish Commis- 
sion, the other directed by Mr. C. O. Whitman; second one at 
Annisquam, and afterwards at several other places on the Atlan- 
tic and Pacific Coasts under the direction of the Johns Hopkins 
University, the State University of California, and the Leland 
Stanford, Jr., University, while Mr. Alexander Agassiz... has 
since built a fine laboratory at Castle Hill . where researches 
on living marine animals are made every summer under his direc- 
tion and at his expense.” 
