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friends, the Holbrooks, at this time, ‘You can hardly imagine what a delightful place Nahant is for me now. I can trace the growth of my little marine animals all the year round without interruption, by going occasionally over there during the winter.
I have at this moment young medusae budding from their polyp nurses, which I expect to see freeing themselves in a few weeks.’
In later years, when his investigations on the medusae were concluded, so far as any teaching from the open book of Nature can be said to be concluded, he pursued here, during a number of years, investigations upon the sharks and skates.
For this work, which should have made one of the series of ‘Contributions,’ he left much material, unhappily not ready for publication.
In August, 1857, Agassiz received the following letter from M. Rouland, Minister of Public Instruction in France.
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