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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 19: 1860-1863: Aet. 53-56. (search)
. One of them who was intending to be an entomologist concludes a very clever and entertaining account of such a first lesson, entirely devoted to a single fish, with these words: This was the best entomological lesson I ever had,—a lesson whose influence has extended to the details of every subsequent study; a legacy the professor has left to me, as he left it to many others, of inestimable value, which we could not buy, with which we could not part. In the Laboratory with Agassiz, by S. H. Scudder. But if Agassiz, in order to develop independence and accuracy of observation, threw his students on their own resources at first, there was never a more generous teacher in the end than he. All his intellectual capital was thrown open to his pupils. His original material, his unpublished investigations, his most precious specimens, his drawings and illustrations were at their command. This liberality led in itself to a serviceable training, for he taught them to use with respect t
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
718. San Francisco, 764. San Magdalena, 718. Santiago, 758. San Vicente, 752. Sargassum, 697. Sarmiento Range, 741. Saturday Club, 546. Schelling, 53, 91, 150, 154, 643. Schimper, Karl, 28, 53, 54, 67, 92, 94, 109. Schimper, William, 82, 91, 107. Schinz, Prof., 16, 77, 147; library and collection, 16. School for young ladies opened, 526; success, 527; lectures at, 529; close, 530; yearly meeting of old pupils,—gift to the Museum, 530. Schubert, 44, 150, 682. Scudder, S. H., description by, of a first lesson by Agassiz, 567. Scyplia, 709. Sea bottom, 653, 672. Sedgwick, Adam, on Geoffroy St. Hilaire's theory, 383; question on descent, 385-387. Sedgwick, Adam, 666. Seeley, H. G., 687. Seiber, 44, 643. Sharks and skates, 550. Shepard, 414. Sholl Bay, 734, 735; moraine at, 735. Shore level, change of, 673. Siebold, Letter of, about Agassiz at Munich, 126. Siedelhorn, ascent of the, 306. Silliman, Benjamin, announces subscribers