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presence in America to become intimate with him, 

 after a few years of acquaintance. The apartment 

 he occupied in the Smithsonian Building was thrown 

 open to Agassiz, as often as he visited or passed 

 through Washington. Agassiz enjoyed in Henry not 

 only his great capacity as an original observer in 

 experimental physics and meteorology, but also his 

 capability as a scientific administrator. Everything 

 was to be done at once; and Henry was very glad 

 to be able to consult Agassiz on everything con- 

 nected with natural history, great collections, scientific 

 libraries, and relations with foreign societies, institu- 

 tions, and scientific bodies. The first list of foreign 

 academies and scientific societies was suggested in a 

 great measure by Agassiz, who asked me to help him. 

 The instructions for collecting natural history sub- 

 jects were partly translated from the " Instructions 

 pour les voyageurs," par 1'administration du Museum 

 royal d'Histoire naturcllc (4 iime edition, Paris, 1845), of 

 which I gladly offered copies to Agassiz and Henry. 

 Of course, Agassiz, Baird, and Girard added a great deal 

 to those instructions, which have contributed so much 

 toward making the United States National Museum 

 the greatest depository of American natural history 

 specimens. 



Although constantly in relation with Henry and his 

 assistant, Baird, Agassiz was not appointed one of the 

 regents of the Smithsonian Institution until Feb. 6, 

 1863, in place of Mr. Badger, removed, as a "traitor," 

 during the Civil War. In the Annual Report of 1862, 

 printed in 1863, Agassiz is for the first time on tin- 



