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while they kept watch over him from the open door, 

 relieving one another from time to time. It was Pour- 

 tales who, at the last moment, was surprised to see him 

 rise in his bed, and to hear him exclaim, with great 

 distinctness, " Le jeu est fini ! " l Then he fell back, 

 and died, shortly after ,ien o'clock P.M., the i4th of 

 December, 1873. Life for him had been a long and 

 successful play, well filled from beginning to end. A 

 post-mortem examination was made by Drs. Brown- 

 Sequard, Jeffries and Morrill Wyman, assisted by five 

 other physicians. The brain was found to be very large 

 and heavy, like that of George Cuvier, and traces of 

 disease were recorded for a period dating back at least 

 twelve years. 



The funeral took place on the i8th, at 2 P.M., in 

 Appleton Chapel, in the College ground, Harvard 

 Square. Rev. Dr. Andrew P. Peabody, professor in 

 the College, conducted the service, according to the 

 King's Chapel liturgy, of Boston. It was simple, all 

 ceremonies except the strictly religious rites being dis- 

 pensed with. The church was crowded with the most 

 noted assembly ever seen in New England, including 

 the Vice- President of the United States, the Governor, 

 Ex-Governor, admirals, major-generals, poets, natural- 

 ists, savants, and distinguished ladies, together with the 

 little band of Europeans who came with Agassiz to 

 the New World, and all the members of the faculty 

 of the University, with the students in a body. 



It was a winter afternoon, without snow, and not a 



1 This recalls the exclamation of Rabelais at the moment of his death, 

 "La farce est jouee." 



