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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Scientific Cambridge. (search)
coming marks an epoch in the scientific life of our city. In 1847, Louis Agassiz, Asa Gray, Jeffries Wyman, and Professor Horsford formed the nucleus of a school of science, which has had more inflund Gray, a man so modest that Cambridge did not know it possessed a great man until he died,—Jeffries Wyman. The student of biology ever rises from the perusal of his papers with the consciousness thof laboratories and systematic instruction, but rich in the ability to converse with such men as Wyman. I can see now that fine profile fit for a medallion, with a face lit by the gentle glow of sciould share his burden, let him reflect upon the possibility of having such choice spirits as Jeffries Wyman among his townsmen, and let him look at the scientific arrangements of the Cambridge Hospita. In 1850, the Scientific School was established, and under the instruction of Agassiz, Gray, Wyman, Peirce, Eustis, Horsford, a number of teachers were bred who, I have said, have extended the sp