CHAPTER XXII. 



1871-1872. 



VOYAGE ON THE " HASSLER " - DREDGING AT THE BARBADOES MA- 

 CHINERY OF THE "HASSLER" -PROPHETIC VlEWS IN A LETTER TO 



BENJAMIN PIERCE GLACIERS IN THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN FROM 

 TALCAHUANA TO SANTIAGO BY CARRIAGE MEETING OF DOMEYKO 

 AND PHILIPPI AGASSIZ'S ELECTION AS A FOREIGN FELLOW OF THE 

 ACADEMY OF SCIENCE OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE THE GAL- 

 APAGOS ISLANDS PANAMA AND SAN FRANCISCO RETURN TO 

 CAMBRIDGE ANOTHER AND THE LAST SERIES OF ASSISTANTS AT 

 THE MUSEUM APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE LEGISLATURE OF MAS- 

 SACHUSETTS. 



PUBLIC life possesses such an attraction, and gets 

 such a strong hold on any one who has drunk at the 

 cup of popularity, that it is almost impossible to resist 

 the temptation of maintaining a name which has once 

 become celebrated on the world's stage. Great natural- 

 ists, like statesmen, artists, speculators, financiers, are 

 no exception to the rule. Simple prudence, after the 

 illness of 1870, would have easily prolonged Agassiz's 

 life for a score of years, for he came from long-lived 

 parents, his mother dying in the eighty-fifth year of her 

 age. But Agassiz was not a man to step into compar- 

 ative obscurity ; he wanted applause, not only in the 

 lecture-room, but also before the general public. The 

 discovery of animals living at great depth on the bot- 

 tom of the sea was so interesting that he was unable to 



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