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men as assistants and co-workers, he was very prompt 

 to make use of them, whenever they were competent. 



I shall finish with a French sentence, very appropri- 

 ate to the Franco-Swiss savant, educated as a naturalist 

 in Germany, a constant admirer and pupil of Cuvier, 



and finally a naturalized American. Agassiz "restera 



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une personnalite populaire et sympathique. A mesure 

 que ses defauts et ses faiblesses diminuent dans 1'eloigne- 

 ment, ses qualites maitresses apparaissent plus eclatantes 

 et font oublier tout le reste : il avait la foi, la vie, la 

 chaleur, 1'enthousiasme, la passion, et surtout ce qui le 

 rendait eminement sympathique, il ne connaissait pas 

 le fiel, 1'envie, la rancune et la haine." 



CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, 

 March, 1895. 



