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CAMBRIDGE, a ASS. 



On the 2d of December Agassiz delivered his last 

 lecture before the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture 

 at Fitchburg, on " The Structural Growth of Domesti- 

 cated Animals." On the 5th he enjoyed, as usual, his 

 weekly family dinner, with all his children around 

 him, smoked cigars, contrary to the special order 

 of Dr. Brown-Sequard ; but the next morning, the 

 6th, he complained of a dimness of sight, of feeling 

 " strangely asleep," and of great weariness. He went, 

 nevertheless, to his Museum, but soon returned, and lay 

 down in his room. It was his last illness. Paralysis of 



