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AGASSIZ AT HARVARD 1 



ON his return to Cambridge at the end of 

 September [1859], Agassiz found the 

 Museum building well advanced. It 

 was completed in the course of the next year, 

 and the dedication took place on the 13th of 

 November, 1860. The transfer of the collec- 

 tions to their new and safe abode was made as 

 rapidly as possible, and the work of developing 

 the institution under these more favorable 

 conditions moved steadily on. The lecture- 

 rooms were at once opened, not only to students, 

 but to other persons not connected with the 

 University. Especially welcome were teachers 

 of schools, for whom admittance was free. It 

 was a great pleasure to Agassiz thus to renew 

 and strengthen his connection with the teachers 

 of the State, with whom, from the time of his 

 arrival in this country, he had held most cordial 

 relations, attending the Teachers' Institutes, 



1 From E. C. Agassiz, Louis Agassiz, his Life and Corre- 

 spondence, pp. 564 if. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 

 1885. 



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