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mastery in description and classification. Schimper was by- 

 temperament an enthusiast, brilliantly imaginative, and ad- 

 dicted to bold speculation. The three lived and worked together 

 in closest intimacy for five years, at Heidelberg and at Munich; 

 each sharing with the other the results of his own work, in 

 mutual encouragement and emulation. Intimacy with the 

 Braun family, at Carlsruhe, ripened into a tenderer relation with 

 Braun's younger sister, Cecile, whose artistic skill found frequent 

 and congenial employment in making admirable colored draw- 

 ings of specimens on which he was working. In the earlier years 

 following their marriage (October, 1833) she continued to take 

 part in his work, as artist and amanuensis. When Agassiz left 

 for America his wife and their three children remained in Europe. 

 She died at the home of her brother, Alexander, at Freiburg-im- 

 Breisgau, July, 1848. Inthespringof 1850 Agassiz married Ehza- 

 beth Cabot Gary, daughter of Thomas Graves Gary, of Boston, 

 and within the year the children were re-united in a new home. 

 Of all the naturalists from whom Agassiz derived inspiration, 

 he ascribed to Georges Guvier unqualified and unique pre- 

 eminence. Like Guvier, Agassiz was a naturalist in the widest 

 sense. Anatomist, embryologist, palaeontologist, geologist, 

 botanist, above all zoologist, his work, in many fields, was har- 

 monized by his broad conception of "nature as one great world." 

 Of the one as of the other of the two past-masters in natural 

 science, whose consecutive contributions illuminated the path of 

 scientific investigation for nearly four-score years, passing each 

 in retrospect as he revealed himself in sterling traits of character 

 and in great and enduring work, we may well ask: — 



"... where was he, 

 That could stand up his parallel?" 



No juster or more discriminating tribute can be paid to either 

 than in the felicitously chosen words stamped on the reverse of 

 the noble medal struck at Geneva in commemoration of Agassiz : 



VIRO INGENIO LAHORE SCIENTIA PRAESTANTISSIMO. 



[The name Agassiz, appears twice in the list of corresponding 

 members of our Academy — Louis, elected in 1856, and Alex- 

 ander, elected in 1865. Dr. George Engelmann, renowned 

 botanist, founder and for many years president of the Academy, 

 was a fellow student with Agassiz at Heidelberg and a valued 

 friend in America. Our late president and patron, Edwin 

 Harrison (S. B., 1856), studied under Agassiz at Gambridge. In 

 1853 and 1864, Agassiz delivered courses of lectures in St. Louis.] 



