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unexampled among us. His conception of the duty of a jUDfi ^-^s(»|• 

 to investigate, to discover, to collect, w^e had only noiiccd faimly 

 in a few exceptional American teachers. Those nictliods lia I hccii 

 introduced in small measure among us; but those wvvv the \mmc 

 ideas of Agassiz as a professor and a teacher. 



There were but two pitiful little collections in the })()sscssioii of 

 the University when Agassiz first came here ,— a collection of 

 minerals, imperfect, small, and never properly arranged, and the 

 beginnings of a botanic garden and herbarium. The idea of mak- 

 ing great collections of natural history objects hardly existed 

 among us; \\v had hardly aspired to such collections. 



And then, he rais(Ml such astonishing sums of money for these 

 new subjects of zoology and geology. A good deal of jealousy 



other departments lonu' (established in ( 'anibridgc for the traditional 



uncle Afr. George Ticknor's, hearing- this jealoiiM- expressed by 

 one of Professor Aga.>i/^ (•.>ilea-iie. i„ Harvard I niver.itN. Hm 

 Mr. Ticknor said. -- " 1 ).Hri l>e alarmed; Aga^.i/ uiil -et more 

 monev out of the ( 'onnn..nwealth of Ma.s.ehu.ett> for hi. .ubje, t. 

 than any of you have <lreanted of oviiin-. than anv of you eould 



