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were at this island school of Agassiz. The wife of Dr. David S. 

 Jordan, president of the Leland Stanford Junior University, then 

 Miss Susan Bowen was professor of zoology at Mount Holyoke at 

 the time of her marriage. Although Mrs. Jordan's home and social 

 duties took much of her time so that she did not carry on researches 

 independently she was enthusiastic in aiding her husband in his 

 scientific work. She died in November, 1886. Her chair at Mount 

 Holyoke is filled by Professor Cornelia M. Clapp. 



Mrs. Fanny Bergen since studying with Agassiz has, with her 

 husband, written a most readable little book on The Development 

 Theory. For the past twelve years she has been an invalid and 

 confined to the room. Notwithstanding this serious drawback to 

 work of any kind Mrs. Bergen has steadily published on scientific 

 topics and her series of papers on Animal Lore which appeared in 

 the Popular Science Monthly have been a contribution to science. 



Prof, and Mrs. H. H. Straight spent their first days of married 

 life at Penikese, which has been a delightful memory, as it was an 

 inspiration for the two who were alread}' turning to science teach- 

 ing in the normal school at Oswego, New York. Prof. Straight 

 was later at the head of the scientific department in a school of 

 Illinois, but by exposure and overwork he brought on consumption 

 whereupon Mrs. Straight took his place. At his death she was 

 desirous of continuing the work to carry out the plans her husband 

 had made; but she was appointed to a position in Japan, where, 

 with her two little children, she now is. 



Lydia W. Shattuck was the most notable teacher of botany 

 Mt. Holyoke has had, but death has cut short her scientific career. 



Susan Hallo well has been professor of botany at Wellesley Col- 

 lege ever since her summer at Penikese. 



Mrs. Zella Reid Cronyn, now living in Massachusetts, was for 

 some time principal of the public schools of San Diego. She encour- 

 aged her pupils to form a cabinet and to study the specimens col- 

 lected and helped them to found the Historical Society, since merged 

 with the Society of Natural History. Whether most of the women 

 who had the good fortune to be among the number instructed by 

 Agassiz have become teachers of science I do not know. Certain it 

 is that now, after nearly twenty years, they are not prominently 

 known in the world of science. Indeed not one of the number has 

 made so brilliant a reputation as have many of the men, for we 

 count among the most distinguished scientists of America some of 

 those who shared the teaching of him whose genial face and almost 

 magic gift of teaching are known throughout the breadth of his 

 adopted land. 



