 Samuel Hubbard Scudder recorded a similar experience , first published in 1874 as " Look at Your Fish " in Every Saturday magazine . Agassiz again starts his new student off with a fish preserved in alcohol and instructs the student to " look at it " , and promises " by and by I will ask what you have seen . " As opposed to Pound 's decomposing sunfish , Scudder 's account emphasizes the care taken to keep the specimen in good condition : 
