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Louis Agassiz. 



present day, who here obtained the inspiration per- 

 haps which led to later successes. Among them 

 were David Starr Jordan, now President of the 

 Leland Stanford Junior University ; Professor Fer- 

 nald, of Maine ; William K. Brooks, later author of 

 a hand-book on Invertebrate Zoology ; Dr. F. H. 

 Snow, now Chancellor of the University of Kansas ; 

 Dr. W. O. Crosby, Walter Fewkes, Samuel Garman 

 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Walter 

 Faxon, Ernest Ingersoll, Professor Apgar, of Tren- 

 ton, Miss Susan Hallowell, Miss Mary Beaman, 

 Charles S. Minot, Professor Stowell, and many 

 more. 



The applications by students far exceeded the 

 accommodations for them, and out of the several 

 hundred, fifty of both sexes were finally selected. 

 Referring to these days, David Starr Jordan says : 



None of us will ever forget his first sight of 

 Agassiz. We had come down from New Bedford in 

 a little tug-boat in the early morning, and Agassiz 

 met us at the landing-place on the island. He was 

 standing almost alone on the little wharf, and his 

 great face beamed with pleasure. For this summer 

 school, the thought of his old age, might be the 

 crowning work of his lifetime. Who could foresee 

 what might come of the efforts of fifty men and 

 women, teachers of science, each striving to do his 

 work in the best possible way ? His thoughts and 

 hopes rose to expectations higher than any of us 

 then understood. 



His tall robust figure, broad shoulders bending a 

 little under the weight of years, his cheery smile, 



