Contents, 



XV 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



PAGE 



THE CRUISE OF THE " BIBB " .... I47 



Return from Brazil — Renewed Work at the Museum — Lec- 

 tures in New York — The Resolution of Bancroft — The 

 Coast Survey and Science — Appointment to Cornell Univer- 

 sity — Report to the Legislature — The Cruise of the Bibb — 

 Address on Humboldt. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



ON THE "hASSLER" 157 



Invitation to Go around the Horn — The Party — In the Gulf 

 Weed — A Singular Discovery — Inhabitants of the Gulf 

 Weed — Nest of a Fish — Defining a Species by its Skin — 

 Off the Rio de la Plata — Discovery of Tertiary Fossils- 

 Living Crinoids — Glaciers of Patagonia — Among the Fue- 

 gians — Discoveries at Lota — Reception in San Francisco.^ 



CHAPTER XX. 



AT PENIKESE . 167 



Growth of a New Idea — John Anderson's Gift — A Patron 

 of Science — Realisation of Agassiz's Dream — Whittier's 

 " Prayer of Agassiz" — A Distinguished Corps of Teachers 

 — Sayings of the Great Teacher at Penikese — Last Days. 



CHAPTER XXL 



RELIGIOUS BELIEF 1 79 



Friendship for Darwin — Opposition to His Theories — Let- 

 ter to Dr. Wilder — Strong Religious Belief — Agassiz on 

 Evolution — Last Literary Work in Opposition to Darwin's 

 Theory — A Definition of Classification — Evidences of Reli- 

 gious Thoughts — Denounced as an Atheist — The Lectures 

 at the Academy of Music. 



