| Show AGASSIZ AND HIS FATHER rachek A STORY in u told ot of agraam tho the great naturalist which is a 0 believe has never yet appeared in print ills ilia father Alca tinged lim him for a commercial life tied and was impatient at his devotion to frogs monakea and fishes the letter latter CA specially capeci alty ally were objects of the boys struts atten tion lia ills ilia vacations vacation a w acro ere spent in making journeys on oa toot foot through europe eurom examining tho the different species ot of fresh frech if you carl CAB prove to nio mo said aid hla big fis fa eber at that you really know scia cionca noo I 1 aill consent that you abail anc sit e tit tho the career I 1 havo have planned for you young Agas agassie six lu in his bla next fort be ing fu then eighteen visited england taking with wilh him a letter of introduction to sir Roder roderick murchison aon you havo have been studying baturo itald tho the great man bluntly 1 hot havo you learned to T tho the lad wu was timid not sure at that moment that he had bad learned anything 11 I 1 D he be baid at last I 1 know a little m very Vory veil tharo will bo the roal ool society tonight to night with we ino there all of tho the great of eng ang land belonged to this society Boci oty that even log ing when the business of tho the griec meeting tag unto ver vcr sir roderick rose and said 1 have bare ft young friend hero here front from sw sri itz its erland nho aho thinks lio lie knows about fib how much I 1 havo have a fancy to try there i is under this cloth a perfect skeleton of A fish which existed long before man mail 11 lio ila then gave him the precise to lo bality in which it had bad been found with one nr r two other facca concerning it the ope i which tho the specimen belonged va aaa of wino so tirsa extinct 41 cau can you sketch for me on tho the black board your idea of this thia fish fiant in said eald sir roderick agassiz took up the hesitated a snowe moment and then sketched a akol eton fish sir roderick held up lip tho the apici apeci men inen the abo portrait was correct in even beao and hue ibo gravo old doctor burt bural in into to loud load lip 1 sir abw AgaBi w asu i aard id on telling tho ike story that was tho the pron det ct moment of an lifo life no the baj hn for I 1 know now my father obud would consent that I 1 should SAN ant A toy rny life afo to science cionco cic |
