Louis Agassiz As a Teacher; Illustrative Extracts On His Method of Instruction
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VII HOW AGASSIZ TAUGHT PROFESSOR SCUDDER [Footnote: 'In the Laboratory with Agassiz, ' by Samuel H. Scudder, from _Every Saturday_ (April 4, 1874) 16, 369-370. ] It was more than fifteen years ago [from 1874] that I entered thelaboratory of Professor Agassiz, and told him I had enrolled my name inthe Scientific School as a student of natural history. He asked me afew questions about my object in coming, my antecedents generally, themode in which I afterwards proposed to use the knowledge I migh...tacquire, and, finally, whether I wished to study any special branch. Tothe latter I replied that, while I wished to be well grounded in alldepartments of zoology, I purposed to devote myself specially toinsects. 'When do you wish to begin?' he asked. 'Now, ' I replied. This seemed to please him, and with an energetic 'Very well!' hereached from a shelf a huge jar of specimens in yellow alcohol. 'Take this fish, ' said he, 'and look at it; we call it a haemulon; byand by I will ask what you have seen.
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