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give it up to the Ray Society. The first 

 three volumes were edited with corrections 

 and additions by Mr. H. E. Strickland, who 

 died before the appearance of the fourth vol- 

 ume, which was finally completed under the 

 care of his father-in-law, Sir William Jar- 

 dine. 



The ability, so eminently possessed by Agas- 

 siz of dealing with a number of subjects at 

 once, was due to no superficial versatility. 

 To him his work had but one meaning. It 

 was never disconnected in his thought, and 

 therefore he turned from his glaciers to his 

 fossils, and from the fossil to the living world, 

 with the feeling that he was always dealing 

 with kindred problems, bound together by the 

 same laws. Nowhere is this better seen than 

 in the records of the scientific society of Neu- 

 chatel, the society he helped to found in the 

 first months of his professorship, and to which 

 he always remained strongly attached, being 

 a constant attendant at its sessions from 1833 

 to 1846. Here we find him from month to 

 month, with philosophic breadth of thought, 

 treating of animals in their widest relations, or 

 describing minute structural details with the 

 skill of a specialist. He presents organized 

 beings in their geological succession, in their 



