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label the shells in the Museum. For years he worked 

 faithfully at the task, and, at his death, several years 

 after that of Agassiz, left the conchological collections 

 in an excellent condition. 



Leo Lesquereux, during 1868 and 1869, classified 

 the fossil plants at the Museum. After his arrival 

 in America at the end' of 1848, Lesquereux studied 

 fossil plants with great success, and had justly be- 

 come an authority on this subject on both sides of 

 the Atlantic. 



I will mention also Charles Hamelin and Messrs. 

 Walter Faxon, Samuel Gorman, and Walter Fewkes, 

 who were attached to the Museum during the last years 

 of Agassiz's life. 



Finally Pourtales resigned his official connection with 

 the Coast Survey in 1873, and took up his residence in 

 Cambridge to assist Agassiz in the general direction of 

 the Museum. As he was the first of the European 

 friends who joined Agassiz at Boston as far back as 

 1846, it was most appropriate that he should be the last 

 to help him. At the death of his father in 1870, he 

 had inherited a fortune sufficient to place him in an 

 independent position, and he devoted the remainder of 

 his life entirely to his zoological studies. Extremely 

 modest and retiring, timid as a child, always a hard 

 worker, but rather slow in all his motions, persistent in 

 his schemes and undertakings, he possessed just the 

 qualities required in the long and weary process of 

 casting and hauling the dredge in the collection of 

 marine animals at great depths. As a curator of the 

 Agassiz Museum, he devoted the last part of his life to 



