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  SCIENCES. 
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  hearts 
  he 
  can 
  never 
  be 
  forgotten 
  ; 
  in 
  the 
  centuries 
  hence, 
  his 
  influence 
  and 
  labors 
  

   will 
  assure 
  students 
  there 
  were 
  intellectual 
  giants 
  in 
  these 
  days. 
  

  

  To 
  others, 
  more 
  intimate 
  with 
  his 
  daily 
  life 
  and 
  thoughts, 
  must 
  be 
  left 
  the 
  

   analysis 
  of 
  that 
  powerful 
  hold 
  which 
  he 
  maintained 
  on 
  all 
  classes 
  of 
  men. 
  Sim- 
  

   plicity 
  and 
  purity 
  of 
  character, 
  singleness 
  of 
  purpose, 
  directness, 
  and 
  compre- 
  

   hensiveness 
  of 
  the 
  highest 
  order, 
  were 
  the 
  bases 
  for 
  that 
  subtle 
  power 
  which 
  

   gathered 
  facts 
  from 
  observation, 
  combined 
  and 
  correlated 
  them, 
  thence 
  deduced 
  

   order 
  ; 
  and 
  placed 
  them 
  so 
  lucidly 
  and 
  attractively 
  before 
  the 
  learned 
  and 
  the 
  

   unlearned. 
  

  

  With 
  the 
  permission 
  of 
  the 
  Academy, 
  I 
  make 
  this 
  the 
  occasion 
  to 
  say 
  a 
  few 
  

   words 
  upon 
  the 
  impetus, 
  direction, 
  and 
  steadily 
  preserved 
  influence 
  which 
  he 
  

   exerted 
  upon 
  scientific 
  study 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  ; 
  not 
  only 
  in 
  his 
  particular 
  

   lines 
  of 
  investigation, 
  but 
  upon 
  every 
  other 
  branch 
  of 
  knowledge. 
  In 
  1846, 
  

   fresh 
  from 
  contact 
  with 
  the 
  advanced 
  scientific 
  men 
  of 
  Europe, 
  and 
  endowed 
  

   with 
  the 
  amplest 
  powers 
  of 
  body 
  and 
  mind, 
  he 
  saw 
  and 
  was 
  delighted 
  with 
  the 
  

   broad 
  and 
  untrammeled 
  field 
  in 
  the 
  country 
  of 
  his 
  adoption. 
  One 
  rule 
  he 
  at 
  

   once 
  established 
  for 
  himself 
  — 
  that 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  all 
  his 
  investigations 
  should 
  be 
  

   given 
  to 
  American, 
  and 
  not 
  to 
  foreign 
  institutions 
  ; 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  day 
  of 
  his 
  death 
  

   he 
  broke 
  not 
  the 
  self-imposed 
  obligation. 
  He 
  had 
  cast 
  his 
  life 
  and 
  lot 
  amongst 
  

   us 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  coramuuication 
  of 
  discoveries 
  to 
  others 
  abroad 
  — 
  who, 
  however, 
  

   were 
  no 
  less 
  his 
  friends, 
  admirers, 
  and 
  co-laborers— 
  he 
  deemed 
  a 
  special 
  act 
  of 
  

   treason. 
  

  

  The 
  many 
  wants 
  he 
  discovered, 
  upon 
  assuming 
  his 
  professorship 
  in 
  Cam- 
  

   bridge, 
  would 
  have 
  disheartened 
  and 
  dismayed 
  others 
  less 
  ardent 
  and 
  self-reliant. 
  

   Tou 
  recollect 
  with 
  what 
  quaint 
  and 
  good 
  humor 
  he 
  described 
  the 
  few 
  dried 
  

   fishes 
  forming 
  the 
  collection 
  of 
  natural 
  history, 
  by 
  which 
  he 
  was 
  expected 
  to 
  

   illustrate 
  his 
  lectures 
  and 
  investigations. 
  That 
  want 
  aroused 
  in 
  his 
  mind 
  the 
  

   desire, 
  and 
  fixed 
  the 
  purpose, 
  to 
  found 
  a 
  museum 
  of 
  zoology 
  which 
  should 
  sur- 
  

   pass 
  the 
  most 
  complete 
  in 
  Europe 
  — 
  not 
  as 
  a 
  mere 
  measure 
  of 
  vastness, 
  but 
  as 
  

   the 
  only 
  proper 
  means 
  of 
  affording 
  the 
  necessary 
  material 
  for 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  students, 
  

   and 
  for 
  aiding 
  the 
  broader 
  studies 
  of 
  the 
  advanced 
  naturalist. 
  With 
  constant 
  

   thinking, 
  the 
  plan 
  grew 
  in 
  scope 
  and 
  definiteness. 
  Here 
  men 
  high 
  in 
  their 
  

   special 
  studies 
  could 
  thoroughly 
  describe 
  and 
  classify 
  every 
  obtainable 
  specimen, 
  

   and 
  deoignate 
  their 
  relation 
  with 
  each 
  other 
  ; 
  whilst 
  the 
  fossils 
  of 
  buried 
  ages 
  

   should 
  reveal 
  their 
  story, 
  and 
  exhibit 
  their 
  correlation 
  with 
  the 
  present 
  epoch. 
  

   From 
  a 
  critical 
  discussion 
  of 
  such 
  aggregated 
  results, 
  we 
  may 
  be 
  assured 
  that 
  

   the 
  law 
  of 
  development 
  in 
  the 
  natural 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  world, 
  whatever 
  it 
  may 
  be, 
  

   would 
  be 
  demonstrated. 
  

  

  He 
  has 
  not 
  lived 
  to 
  see 
  it. 
  For 
  a 
  quarter 
  of 
  a 
  century 
  he 
  has 
  fought 
  to 
  ob- 
  

   tain 
  the 
  means 
  to 
  perfect 
  it, 
  and 
  has 
  really 
  succeeded 
  as 
  no 
  other 
  man 
  upon 
  this 
  

   continent 
  could 
  have 
  hoped 
  for. 
  But 
  he 
  has 
  infused 
  among 
  our 
  people 
  the 
  sen- 
  

   timent 
  of 
  more 
  liberal 
  assistance 
  to 
  science, 
  and 
  the 
  full 
  fruition 
  of 
  his 
  labor 
  will 
  

   come 
  to 
  his 
  successors. 
  

  

  It 
  seems 
  a 
  marvel 
  how 
  much 
  of 
  the 
  enthusiasm 
  and 
  industry 
  of 
  Agassiz 
  has 
  

   been 
  developed 
  among 
  those 
  who 
  have 
  studied 
  or 
  come 
  in 
  contact 
  with 
  him. 
  I 
  

  

  