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Hence he has exerted a powerful influence upon 

 American education. It is true that he was fortu- 

 nate in colleagues and in circumstances. Guyot 

 came with him to this country from Switzerland, and 

 in a different sphere, and with different intellectual 

 endowments, has shown many of the qualities which 

 distinguish his life-long associate. Their united 

 work among the teachers of Massachusetts will 

 always be gratefully remembered by the friends of 

 popular education. Dana, when Agassiz arrived, 

 had recently returned from his voyage around the 

 globe, laden with rich treasure of thought and obser- 

 vation, and in his enlightened and impartial conduct 

 of the American Journal of Science^ was a powerful 

 ally in the promotion of all departments of scientific 

 education and research. Bache and Henry, at the 

 head of two great departments of the Government, 

 the Coast Survey and the Smithsonian Institution, 

 were able to turn the national resources toward the 

 same great purposes. Torrey and Gray had already 

 given world-wide reputation to American Botany, 

 and Peircehad advanced the science of Mathematics. 

 The gifts of Lawrence, and Sheffield, and Peabody, 

 successively brought new and advantageous impulses 

 to the study of Natural History. The explorations 

 of the Western States and Territories, the settle- 

 ment of California, and the surveys of the Pacific 

 Railroad route, created a demand for trained geolo- 

 gists and naturalists. Young men were attracted 

 to Cambridge by the renown of the Swiss professor, 

 and, after learning wisdom in his laboratories, went 

 off to found and develop new institutions in Salem, 



