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Prof. Agassiz be requested to prepare a sketch of the life 

 and labors of the late Prof. Johannes Miiller, of Berlin. 



Dr. Kneeland presented to the Society, in the name of 

 Wm. M. Wallace, Esq., of Winona, Minnesota, a living 

 specimen of a snapping turtle, weighing 22 lbs., caught 

 in the Mississippi River, near Winona. It was found 

 to be identical with the Chelydra serpentina. The thanks 

 of the Society were voted for this donation. 



Mr. Samuel Woodward, of Boston, was elected a 

 Resident Member of the Society. 



June 16, 1858. 



The President in the Chair. 



Prof. Agassiz gave a short verbal sketch of the labors 

 of the late Prof. Johannes Miiller, of Berlin. 



He was born about the year 1801 ; the particulars of his early 

 life Prof. Agassiz was unable to give ; he was thoroughly and un- 

 ceasingly devoted to science, more so than any other man whose 

 life belongs entirely to the nineteenth century ; and the scientific 

 world has met with no greater loss since the death of Cuvier. His 

 w^orks cover almost the whole domain of Compai-ative Anatomy, 

 Physiology, and Zoology. His first researches were on the eyes 

 of insects and the invertebrata generally ; on the former subject he 

 combated successfully the views of Strauss-Durckheim ; he then 

 devoted his attention to the microscopic structure and develop- 

 ment of the glandular organs in the different animal types. He 

 next published his great '' Manual of Physiology," embracing a 

 comprehensive view of the whole animal kingdom, and especially 

 valuable for his observations on the senses and the cerebral func- 

 tions. After this he devoted himself more especially to Zoology ; 

 beginning with a comparison of the sharks and skates with the 



