Chapter 25: 1872-1873: Aet. 65-66.
- Return to Cambridge. -- summer school proposed. -- interest of Agassiz. -- gift of Mr. Anderson. -- prospectus of Penikese school. -- difficulties. -- opening of school. -- summer work. -- close of school. -- last course of lectures at Museum. -- lecture before board of Agriculture. -- illness. -- death. -- place of Burial.
In October, 1872, Agassiz returned to Cambridge. To arrange the collections he had brought back, to write a report of his journey and its results, to pass the next summer quietly at his Nahant laboratory, continuing his work on the Sharks and Skates, for which he had brought home new and valuable material, seemed the natural sequence of his year of travel. But he found a new scheme of education on foot; one for which he had himself given the first impulse, but which some of his younger friends had carefully considered and discussed in his absence, being confident that with his help it might be accomplished. The plan was to establish a summer school
