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est and suggestion. As I have said one of the most important of 

 Agassiz' achievements was the establishment of a school of science 

 at Cambridge, and the education of a large number of young men 

 to whom he imparted his enthusiasm and his scientific methods. 

 These young men are now scattered over the country, each diffus- 

 ing in his own circle the light kindled from the spark of Agassiz's 

 genius. Among these are Morse at Salem, Putnam and Hyatt at 

 Cambridge, Packard at Providence, Verrill at Yale, Wilder here at 

 Cornell, and others, who are continuing the work which Agassiz 

 inaugurated, gaining fame for themselves and for the institutions 

 with which they are connected, by their usefulness as teachers and 

 their success as investigators. In this category I should not forget 

 to mention Alexander Agassiz, on whose shoulders his father's 

 mantle so worthily rests. By his researches in invertebrate zoology 

 he has shed new luster on the great name he bears, and he is 

 devoting the wealth, which fortunately for science has come to his 

 hand to the fulfillment of his father's plans. Nor can I omit those 

 whose brilliant careers have been cut short by death. — Burnett, 

 Stimpson and Clark. Between a number of these students and 

 Agassiz an estrangement had at one time occurred and they had 

 left his school and were located for the most part in Salem, Mass. 

 In 1869, a meeting of the American Association was held at Sa- 

 lem, and Professor Agassiz, who had withdrawn from it, was in- 

 duced to be present, and resumed his membership and friendly re- 

 lations with his old students. At the close of the meeting I offered 

 a resolution of congratulation and of thanks to Mr. Geo. Peabody 

 for his munificence in the endowment of the Peabody Academy of 

 Sciences, just then fully organized and placed under the control of 

 Agassiz' former pupils. In the remarks offered in support of the 

 resolution, after expressing high appreciation of the admirable 

 equipment of the institution, and returning thanks on behalf of sci- 

 ence to Mr. Peabody, I took occasion to specially commend the 

 scientific work which had been there commenced, and said that in 

 its methods and spirit I recognized the hand of a master, that in- 

 asmuch as Professor Agassiz had inaugurated the train of causes 

 that had culminated in this institution, and his influence now per- 

 vaded it, I felt that he deserved equal honor for its success. The 



