﻿ACADEMY 
  OF 
  SCIENCES. 
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  with 
  bim 
  to 
  this 
  country 
  from 
  Switzerland, 
  and 
  in 
  a 
  different 
  sphere, 
  and 
  with 
  

   different 
  intellectual 
  endowments, 
  has 
  shown 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  qualities 
  which 
  dis- 
  

   tinguish 
  his 
  life-long 
  associate. 
  Their 
  united 
  work 
  among 
  the 
  teachers 
  of 
  Mas- 
  

   sachusetts 
  will 
  always 
  be 
  gratefully 
  remembered 
  by 
  the 
  friends 
  of 
  popular 
  edu- 
  

   cation. 
  Dana, 
  when 
  Agassiz 
  arrived, 
  had 
  recently 
  returned 
  from 
  his 
  voyage 
  

   around 
  the 
  globe, 
  laden 
  with 
  rich 
  treasure 
  of 
  thought 
  and 
  observation, 
  and 
  in 
  

   his 
  enlightened 
  and 
  impartial 
  conduct 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Journal 
  of 
  Science, 
  was 
  

   a 
  powerful 
  ally 
  in 
  the 
  promotion 
  of 
  all 
  departments 
  of 
  scientific 
  education 
  and 
  

   research. 
  Bacheand 
  Henry, 
  at 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  two 
  great 
  departments 
  of 
  the 
  Gov- 
  

   ernment, 
  the 
  Coast 
  Survey 
  and 
  the 
  Smithsonian 
  Institution, 
  were 
  able 
  to 
  turn 
  

   the 
  national 
  resources 
  toward 
  the 
  same 
  great 
  purposes. 
  Torrey 
  and 
  Gray 
  had 
  

   already 
  given 
  world-wide 
  reputation 
  to 
  American 
  Botany, 
  and 
  Pierce 
  had 
  ad- 
  

   vanced 
  the 
  science 
  of 
  Mathematics. 
  The 
  gifts 
  of 
  Lawrence, 
  and 
  Sheffield, 
  and 
  

   Peabody, 
  successively 
  brought 
  new 
  and 
  advantageous 
  impulses 
  to 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  

   Natural 
  History. 
  The 
  explorations 
  of 
  the 
  Western 
  States 
  and 
  Territories, 
  the 
  

   settlement 
  of 
  California, 
  and 
  the 
  surveys 
  of 
  the 
  Pacific 
  Railroad 
  route, 
  created 
  

   a 
  demand 
  for 
  trained 
  geologists 
  and 
  naturalists. 
  Young 
  men 
  were 
  attracted 
  to 
  

   Cambridge 
  by 
  the 
  renown 
  of 
  the 
  Swiss 
  professor, 
  and, 
  after 
  learning 
  wisdom 
  in 
  

   bis 
  laboratories, 
  went 
  off 
  to 
  found 
  and 
  develop 
  new 
  institutions 
  in 
  Salem, 
  Bos- 
  

   ton, 
  New 
  Haven, 
  Ithaca, 
  and 
  Oakland, 
  or 
  offered 
  themselves 
  to 
  the 
  service 
  of 
  the 
  

   State 
  or 
  nation. 
  Teachers 
  in 
  the 
  common 
  schools, 
  especially 
  in 
  New 
  England, 
  

   learned 
  how 
  to 
  awaken 
  an 
  interest 
  in 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  Nature. 
  Congress, 
  in 
  1862, 
  

   made 
  a 
  generous 
  provision 
  for 
  scientific 
  schools 
  ; 
  and 
  now, 
  a 
  quarter 
  of 
  a 
  century 
  

   from 
  the 
  coming 
  of 
  Agassiz, 
  scientific 
  courses 
  run 
  parallel 
  with 
  classical 
  courses 
  

   in 
  most 
  of 
  the 
  colleges 
  of 
  the 
  country. 
  I 
  am 
  far 
  from 
  attributing 
  all 
  this 
  pro- 
  

   gress 
  to 
  any 
  individual. 
  It 
  is 
  the 
  movement 
  of 
  science, 
  in 
  a 
  new 
  country, 
  and 
  in 
  

   the 
  nineteenth 
  century 
  ; 
  but 
  I 
  do 
  not 
  hesitate 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  among 
  all 
  the 
  great 
  

   and 
  serviceable 
  men 
  who 
  have 
  helped 
  on 
  this 
  spirit 
  of 
  research 
  and 
  of 
  investi- 
  

   gation, 
  none 
  is 
  more 
  worthy 
  of 
  grateful 
  homage 
  than 
  Louis 
  Agassiz. 
  Especially 
  

   was 
  he 
  noteworthy 
  for 
  his 
  opposition 
  to 
  the 
  rote-teaching 
  in 
  scientific 
  text-books 
  ; 
  

   for 
  his 
  encouragement 
  of 
  local 
  studies 
  — 
  researches 
  about 
  home 
  ; 
  and 
  for 
  his 
  

   persistent 
  employment 
  and 
  recommendation 
  of 
  the 
  art 
  of 
  drawing 
  as 
  an 
  indis- 
  

   pensable 
  aid 
  in 
  scientific 
  research. 
  

  

  If 
  I 
  may 
  be 
  allowed 
  to 
  make 
  an 
  allusion 
  to 
  my 
  own 
  relations 
  with 
  Professor 
  

   Agassiz, 
  I 
  will 
  say 
  that 
  the 
  greeting 
  which 
  you 
  gave 
  him, 
  and 
  the 
  greeting 
  

   which 
  he 
  gave 
  me 
  in 
  the 
  halls 
  of 
  the 
  Academy, 
  fifteen 
  months 
  ago, 
  filled 
  me 
  

   with 
  assurance 
  and 
  courage. 
  It 
  was 
  not 
  long 
  afterward, 
  before 
  his 
  visit 
  here 
  

   bore 
  fruits, 
  and 
  the 
  liberality 
  of 
  Edward 
  Tompkins, 
  of 
  Oakland, 
  endowed 
  in 
  the 
  

   University 
  of 
  California 
  a 
  professorship 
  which 
  is 
  to 
  bear 
  in 
  all 
  time 
  the 
  name 
  

   of 
  Agassiz. 
  Scarcely 
  two 
  months 
  ago 
  I 
  sat 
  in 
  his 
  study 
  at 
  Cambridge, 
  and 
  

   answered 
  his 
  inquiries 
  about 
  California, 
  and 
  the 
  friends 
  whom 
  he 
  met 
  here. 
  I 
  

   congratulated 
  him 
  on 
  the 
  recovery 
  of 
  his 
  health, 
  and 
  heard 
  his 
  declaration 
  that 
  

   he 
  had 
  at 
  his 
  conmiand 
  all 
  the 
  funds 
  which 
  he 
  could 
  well 
  employ 
  for 
  two 
  years 
  

   to 
  come. 
  Scarcely 
  ten 
  days 
  have 
  passed 
  since 
  I 
  received 
  from 
  an 
  Eastern 
  society 
  

   a 
  request, 
  which 
  was 
  made 
  at 
  the 
  suggestion 
  of 
  Agassiz, 
  that 
  I 
  would 
  prepare, 
  

  

  