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Dr. Hagen was a man of marked character, simple and sympathetic, 

 and if at times somewhat hot and hasty in temper and impatient of 

 opposition, he had also one of the warmest of hearts and most gener- 

 ous of dispositions. His unostentatious hospitality was enjoyed by 

 many entomologists, who found his life in Cambridge quiet, contented, 

 and happy. 



Of Dr. Hagen's domestic life it is sufficient to record here that in 

 1851 he married Johanna Maria Elise Gerhards, who survives him. 



Dr. Hagen received the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy 

 from the University of Konigsberg in 18G3 ; Harvard made him a 

 Doctor of Science in 1887. The renewal of his medical degree on 

 the 17th of October, 1890, the date of his graduation fifty years 

 previously, after the custom of German universities, gave him great 

 pleasure. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences, November 11, 1868, and served on the Council in 

 1877-78. He was also a member of a goodly number of scientific 

 associations, and most of the entomological societies the world over 

 were glad to enroll him as an honorary member. 



Stricken with paralysis in September, 1890, Dr. Hagen lingered 

 for more than three years ; his painful sufferings being lightened by all 

 that affectionate and devoted care could do. fie died at Cambridge, 

 November 9, 1893, and was buried in the grounds of Harvard 

 University at Mount Auburn, near his associate, Louis Francois de 

 Pourtales. 



1894. Samuel Henshaw. 



JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 



James Russell Lowell was born at Elmwood, Cambridge, Mas- 

 sachusetts, February 22, 1819 ; he died at the same place, August 12, 

 189 1. He was the youugest of a family of five, two daughters and three 

 sons, born of Charles and Harriet Spence Lowell. His father at the time 

 of Lowell's birth was thirty-seven years old and lived till 1861, when 

 his son was forty-two. He was minister to the West Church, Boston, 

 and his son has drawn his portrait in a letter to C. F. Briggs, written 

 in 1844: " He is Dr. Primrose in the comparative degree, the very 

 simplest and charmingest of sexagenarians, and not without a great 

 deal of the truest magnanimity." The Lowells traced their descent 

 from Percival Lowell of Bristol, England, who settled in Newbury, 

 Massachusetts, in 1639, and in the generations just preceding that of 

 James Russell Lowell three of the family besides his father had 



