THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 



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Death of Professor Alexander Agassiz. 



Professor Alexander Agassiz, one of 

 the foremost naturalists of the world, and 

 son of Louis Agassiz, from whom our 

 association takes its name, died Easter 

 Sunday, March 27, on board the trans- 

 Atlantic liner Adriatic en route for New 

 York, lie was returning from a trip for 

 pleasure and in behalf of science. His 

 trips abroad always included some collec- 

 tion of specimens for The Agassiz 

 Museum at Cambridge, founded by our 

 Agassiz. 



The Agassiz Association extends to 

 relatives and friends, and to all scientists, 

 most sincere sympathy. 



"The Boston Globe" has the following 

 statement : 



"Alexander Emmanuel Rudolph Agassiz, bet- 

 ter known to the world as Alexander Agassiz. 

 simply, was for nearly half a century, in por- 

 tions of the 19th and 20th, one of the most 

 remarkable scientists of his time, but, unlike 

 nearly all others who have devoted their lives 

 to original research, he was a man of wealth 

 which counted among the millions. 



"That wealth was the result of his own 

 scientific knowledge and labors. Indeed, his 

 studies in the Lawrence Scientific School and 

 elsewhere had for their chief incentive the 

 wish to become rich, and yet, anomalous as it 

 may seem, his love of money was most largely 

 based upon his ambition to possess resources 

 to enable him to pursue his investigations. 



"Thus, from the time when he was a little 

 more than 30 years old his material prosperity 

 and his wonderful stock of knowledge pro- 

 gressed hand in hand, and each were dis- 

 tributed generously for the benefit of the 

 world by the diffusion of rare scholarships 

 along his chosen lines. 



"But to have a full comprehension of the 

 causes which led to the success of this student 

 of nature, financier, author and teacher, the 

 life and character of his parents should be 

 understood, in order that heritage and envir- 

 onment may be considered together and the 

 influence of their joint operation be realized." 



"The Boston Herald" says : 



"Numerous honors were bestowed upon 

 Prof. Agassiz. In 1873 he was awarded the 

 Walker prize of $1000 by the Boston Society 

 of Natural History. He was the first foreigner 

 to receive the "Prix Serres" from the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences. Bologna University, on 

 the occasion of its 200th anniversary, gave him 

 a doctor's degree. His degree of L. L. D. was 

 from Harvard, and Cambridge University. 

 England, conferred on him the degree of doc- 

 tor sciences. He was' made officer of the 

 Legion of Honor of France in 1896, and ap- 

 pointed member of the Order of Merit by 

 Emperor William in 1902. 



"Prof. Agassiz was a member of many 

 American and European scientific societies. In 

 1901 he became president of the National 



Academy of Sciences— a position which he 

 held for six years. 



"The home of Alexander Agassiz was at 

 Cambridge. He was married in 1860 to Anna 



Russell. ' 



"The Agassiz family and its connections are 

 an important element in Boston. The "Agassiz 

 group" of Calumet & Hecla stockholders in- 

 cludes ten or a dozen persons, and they are 

 factors in many other great enterprises cen- 

 tering there. 



PROFESSOR ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. 

 Cut by courtesy of " The Harvard Crimson-' 



"Louis Agassiz had two daughters by his 

 first wife. One of them married Quincy A. 

 Shaw, who was a factor with Alexander 

 Agassiz in developing Calumet & Hecla; the 

 other married Henry Lee Higginson, who has 

 given much to Harvard, including Soldier's 

 Field, where athletic contests are held, and 

 Harvard Union, the university club. 



"Alexander's three sons are George R., 

 Maximilian and Rodolphe L. Rodolphe is 

 the famous polo player of the family and is 

 as devoted to business as to sport." 



Camera Courtship. 

 She gave him a cabinet photo; 



He gazed for a moment or two, 

 Then pleaded, "Sweetheart, won't you give 

 me 



The lovely original, too?" 

 "If you're positive, dear, you love me." 



She said, through a film of tears, 

 "A negative I cannot give you — 



I'm yours to the end of your years." 

 So the courtship was quick to develop, 



Their marriage was fixed up in town, 

 And now in a middle-class suburb 



She is steadily toning him down.— Judge. 



