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silver dollars, 3; employs Burkhardt 

 as draughtsman, 5 ; professorship at 

 Harvard College, 6 ; second course 

 of lectures at Charleston, S. C., 7; 

 assistants from Ncuchatel, 7 ; house 

 at Cambridge, 7 ; trouble with Desor, 

 8; interference of friends, n; arbi- 

 tration, ii ; dismissal of Desor, n; 

 first course of lectures at Harvard, 

 14 ; visits Lake Superior with stu- 

 dents, 14 ; explores the shores of 

 Lake Superior, 15 ; original " sum- 

 mer natural history school," 15 ; 

 publishes Lake Superior, 17 ; death 

 of his first wife, 18 ; arrival of 

 his library, etc., in Cambridge, 20 ; a 

 second Hotel des Neuchatelois, 20; 

 presented with all kinds of spec- 

 imens, 22 ; his struggles to pro- 

 vide expenses, 23 ; lectures in subur- 

 ban towns, 24; his popularity in 

 New England, 24; on the commit- 

 tee, Association of American Geolo- 

 gists, 25 ; delivers address at the 

 dedication of new building, Boston 

 Society of Natural History, 25 ; work 

 at the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 27 ; visit to Philadelphia, 27 ; influ- 

 ence of Dr. Morton, 28 ; excursion 

 to Timber Creek, 29; returns to 

 Harvard, 30; unfinished work, 31; 

 Memoirs of the American Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, 31 ; Comparative 

 Physiology, 31 ; friendship of Fel- 

 ton and Pierce, 32 ; arrival of his 

 son Alexander, 32; friendship with 

 Mrs. Felton, 32; his moustaches, 

 32 ; engagement to Miss Gary, 33 ; 

 second marriage, 34; happiness of 

 second marriage, 35 ; his two daugh- 

 ters at Cambridge, 36; becomes 

 Americanized, 37; cruise of the 

 IT..-/. ( l/itt'itim, 38; explores Florida 

 Coral Reefs, 38 ; builds a laboratory, 

 39; delay in publishing report on 

 Coral Reefs, 39 ; visit of M. Ampere, 

 40; tombs of Spurzheim and Bow- 

 ditch, 41; appointment of professor 

 of comparative anatomy, Charleston, 

 S. C., 42 ; illness at Charleston, 43 ; 

 receives the "Prix Cuvier,"43; the 



religious world, 43; writes articles 

 for Christian Kxamiiter, 44 ; sharp 

 criticisms of ( ~!irn.ti,tn l-.xitniiner 

 articles, 44 ; refuses to write for re- 

 ligious pa]ins, 45; his experience 

 with the law, 45 ; lectures before the 

 Smithsonian Institution, 47; friend- 

 ship of Henry and Bache, 48 ; inter- 

 est in the Smithsonian Institution, 

 48; social life at Cambridge, 50; his 

 pupils in America, 51 ; letter to 

 Pictet, 53 ; disagreement with Pro- 

 fessor Clark, 53 ; letter to Jules Pic- 

 tet, 56; illness at Charleston, 57; 

 resigns professorship at the Medical 

 College, Charleston, 58; tour in the 

 South, 58; explores the Mississippi 

 River, 58 ; removal from Oxford 

 Street, 58 ; his books, etc., 59; house 

 corner of Quincy and Harvard 

 Streets, 59 ; lectures to the pupils of 

 Mrs. Agassiz's school, 61 ; contribu- 

 tions to the Natural History of United 

 States, 64 ; his Essay on Classifica- 

 tion" 65; his fiftieth birthday, 68; 

 Longfellow's verses on his birthday, 

 68 ; offer from Oswald Heer, 69 ; 

 call to the chair of palaeontology at 

 the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 70 ; 

 declines offer from Paris, 71 ; letter 

 to M. Rouland, 71; receives the 

 Monthyon prize, 73 ; Knight of the 

 Legion of Honour, 73 ; receives 

 the Cuvier prize, 73 ; his sympathy 

 for France in 1870, 74; work on 

 Fresk Water Fishes postponed, 75 ; 

 visit to Europe, 76; visits M. Rou- 

 land and old friends in Paris, 76; 

 visit to his mother, 77; in Swit/i-r- 

 land, 77 ; reception given by Swiss 

 naturalists to Agassiz at Geneva, 79 ; 

 meets Desor at Genthod, 80; visit to 

 Auguste Mayor, Neuchatel, 80; pur- 

 chases Professor Bronn's palrcon- 

 tological collection, 81 ; purchases 

 the Koninck collection, 81 ; farewell 

 to Europe, 81; America to be his 

 final home, 82; scheme lor Museum, 

 82 ; first subscription for his Museum, 

 83; state aid for Museum, 84; his 

 industry and activity in establishing 



