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scientific world in a year or two at most, and would give 

 new views on coral reefs, barrier reefs, and atolls, 

 entirely different from those presented by Darwin, 

 Couthouy, and Dana in describing those of the Pacific 

 Ocean. 



Agassiz always had more irons in the fire than he 

 could manage, and instead of diminishing their number, 

 he was constantly increasing them. Happily, his son, 

 long after his death, took hold of the plates, reprinted 

 the whole of the Report sent to Professor Bache in 

 1851, and with the help of Pourtales, who named all the 

 figures, issued in 1882, in Vol. VII. of the "Memoirs 

 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology," the final 

 " Report on the Florida Reefs," by Louis Agassiz, 4to, 

 Cambridge. The editor has added at the end of the 

 paper a chapter "entitled, Sketch of the Florida Reefs 

 and Keys," extracted from a small volume of Louis 

 Agassiz, entitled " Methods of Study in Natural His- 

 tory," Boston, 1863, 121110. 



The great number of specimens collected in Florida, 

 added to the already important collections gathered at his 

 house and at the old bath-house by the Charles River, 

 made it an absolute necessity to build a sort of laboratory 

 with a lecture-room, and a quantity of drawers for the 

 display of the specimens. A wooden structure, for the 

 storage of the specimens preserved in alcohol, was 

 therefore erected on the college grounds, to the left of 

 the chemical laboratory and engineer's room of the 

 Lawrence Scientific School, close by the present Hem- 

 enway Gymnasium, and was ready for occupancy in 



