Show STUDENT LIFE 148 teaching collecting and with popular lectures to permit of much progress in such lines Of his more popular works “Methods of Study in Natural History” ran through many editions and is classic to this day He traveled widely collecting specimens and studyimr the effects e on which he wrote of the many jxpular papers and several scientific treatises One more piece of drudgery he accomplished when in connection with Strickland he published a “Bibliography of and Geology” in four volumes Taken as a whole his scientific works of this period do not compare with those of the Old World There heart and soul were hound up in his publications but in America he found a wider field and a truer mission From the time of “The I ittle Academv” until his death he was constantly surrounded by a bodv of students and To know him was an education to associate with him was to he inspired to search for the truths of nature While he was at Xeufcha-te- l that academy became a scientific Mecca: with his departure its light went out and it went back to its former insignificance The Museum of Comnarative Zoologv became the center of scientific work in America Xot content with waiting for men to come to him if he heard of a promising young naturalist he invited him to come to the museum and study Naturally kind and he was especially so to young men and would spend hours ice-ag- Zo-olo- gy co-work- ers svm-pathet- ic and hours leading them on into the mysteries of science He revolutionized the teaching of zoology : before him had been the committed recitation following him was the laboratory ami the liv“If you study naing specimen ture in books when you go out doors you will not find her” he said “Look and see for yourself” might have Peen his motto Many are the stories told of the first lesson when laying a fish a shell or like specimen before the student he would depart with the injunction “Look and see what you can see” of the return the recital his “Yes yes! that is good but you have not seen half enough — look again” — and he was gone Many there were who solved the problems of them are the great naturalists of today Some there were who failed of them the world has never heard One by one his pupils went out into the colleges and universities of the land spreading the gospel of the new method of teaching His popular lectures before lyceums and institutes reached manv others “Methods of Teaching” his most popular work because in it lived the spirit of the master reached still others with at least a reflected glow but still Agassiz was not satisfied The great both’ of teachers went on in the same old way Of a way in which to reach them he dreamed and finally planned a great scientific “camp meeting” Though he was failing in health this plan was finallv carried out In the summer of 1873 fifty teachers chosen ! |