INDEX. 



787 



581, 647, 674; invitation to 

 Paris, 550, 552; refusal, and 

 reasons, 551-554; receives cross 

 of Legion of Honor, 552 ; dan- 

 gerous state of collections, 554; 

 an ideal museum, 555-559 ; 

 "Museum of Comparative Zo- 

 ology" founded, 560-564; visit 

 to Europe, 562; teaching at mu- 

 seum, 566; attitude during civil 



. war, 568, 575, 577, 591; urges 

 founding National Academy, 

 669; naturalized, 570 ; receives 

 Copley medal, 572 ; lecturing 

 tour, 580; ethnographical col- 

 lections, 582 ; hydrographical 

 distribution of animals, 585 ; 

 future of negro race, 591, 594, 

 600, 612 ; visit to Maine, 622; 

 to Brazil, 625; return, 638, 644; 

 at Lowell Institute, 624 ; at 

 Cooper Institute, 645 ; illness, 

 657 ; journey to the West, 661 ; 

 professor at Cornell University, 

 662 : address at Humboldt Cen- 

 tennial, 674; illness, 676; anx- 

 iety for Museum, 676, 680 ; 

 restored health, 689 ; Hassler 

 expedition, 690, 749 ; at Talca- 

 huana, 750 ; journey from Tal- 

 cahuana to Santiago, 752-758 ; 

 elected Foreign Associate of the 

 Institute of France, 759 ; at the 

 Galapagos islands, 759-764; at 

 San Francisco, 764 ; return to 

 Cambridge, 765; summer school 

 projected, 766; gift of Penikese, 

 767 ; opening of school, 769 ; last 

 lectures at Museum. 776 ; last 

 work, 778; last lecture, 782; last 

 visit to Museum, 782 ; death, 

 783. 



Agassiz, Rose Mayor, 1; sympathy 

 with her son, 2, 3; at 'Concise, 

 135; visit to, 563; death, 656. 



Albany, 427. 



Albemarle Island, 760. 



Aletsch, glacier of the, 326, 331. 



Alps, tirst excursion in, 16, 17; 

 later excursions, 287; first per- 

 manent station, 298. 



Amalgamation, 600, 609, 612, 

 616. 



Amazons, the, 630, 636, 640, 646. 



America, native races of, 581. 



America, South, native races of, 

 643. 



American forests, 439. 

 Ancud, 748. 

 Anderson, John, 767. 

 Anderson School of Natural His- 

 tory, 768; opening, 771. 

 Anthony, J. G., 679. 

 Asterolepis, 473. 

 Australian race, 500. 

 Austrian custom-house officers, 87. 



BACHE, A. D., 422, 455, 458, 480, 



482, 485. 



Bachelor's Peak, 721. 

 Baer, 150. 



Bailey, Professor, 426. 

 Baird", S. F. 424. 

 Balanus, 469. 

 Bancroft, George, 645. 

 Barbados, 703. 

 Barnard, J. M , 680. 

 Beaumont, Elie de, writes about 



first part of "Fossil Fishes," 



176. 



Berlin, University of, quoted, 569. 

 Beroids, 489. 

 Berthy, 90. 

 "Bibb," U. S. Coast Survey 



steamer, 453, 671. 

 " Bibliographia Zoologica," 335. 

 Bienne, college at, 6, 7. 

 Bischoff, 29. 

 Blake, J. H., 691. 

 Bombinator obstetricans, observa- 

 tions on, 33, 35, 36, 41. 

 Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, 355, 



363, 378, 379. 

 Booth, 419. 

 Borja Bay, 721. 

 Boston, 401, 430. 

 Boston, East, 442 ; laboratory, 443 ; 



zostera marine bed, 449; shell 



bed, 450. 



Boston Harbor, 648. 

 Botany, questions in, 40. 

 Bowdftch, 438. 

 Braun, Alexander, 24, 25, 31, 67, 



89, 94, 143, 179, 397, 643. 

 Brazil, visit to, 625; freshwater 



fauna of, 633, 638, 640, 646; 



glacier phenomena, 638. 

 Brewster, Sir David, 473. 

 Brongniart, 176. 

 Bronn, 29, 48; his collection now 



in Cambridge, 30. 

 Brown-Se"quard, Dr.. 782. 

 Buch, Leopold von, 201, 256, 264, 



265, 272, 274, 345. 



