Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1874 — Penikese. [ARTICLE]

Penikese.

At the meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Science, Prof. Putnam gave a very interesting account of the work done in this school. Following out Agassiz’ idea, text-books are avoided, and every effort is made to coiiipel the students tq original investigation. Each one receives a fish, with directions to study it externally for two days and tell the instructor what haS been observed. Then its anatomy is ini yestigated in the same way, until finally two things have been gained—the habit of self-study has been formed and a thorough knowledge of a vertebrate animal, formed on observation, has been obtained. One little fact was developed in this way in regard to the much-mooted "co-education of the sexes.” It. was found that ladies are quite capable q's making original investigations, and four or five of them actually did make original observations before any of the gentlemen began to do. so. The students were mostly teachers, and numbered twenty-two gentlemen and twenty-one ladies—forty-three in nil.—Galaxy for yor ember. « ; . —Nine million horses in the United States: value, $660,000.000. France has 3,663.600; Austria, 3,100,000; England, 2,666.200; Germanv, 2,500,000; Prussia, 1,800,000; Turkey, 1,100,000. *