CHAPTER XXn. 



1868-1871 : ^t. 61-64. 



New Subscription to Museum. — Additional Buildings. — Ar- 

 rangement of New Collections. — Dredging Expedition on 

 Board the Bibb. — Address at the Humboldt Centennial. 



— Attack on the Brain. — Suspension of Work. — Work- 

 ing Force at the Museum. — New Accessions. — Letter 

 from Professor Sedgwick. — Letter from Professor Des- 

 hayes. — Restored Health. — Hassler Voyage proposed. 



— Acceptance. — Scientific Preparation for the Voyage. 



Agassiz returned to Cambridge to find the 

 Museum on an improved footing financially. 

 The Legislature had given seventy-five thou- 

 sand dollars for an addition to the building, 

 and private subscriptions had doubled this 

 sum, in order to provide for the preservation 

 and arrangement of the new collections. In 

 acknowledging this gift of the Legislature in 

 his Museum Report for 1868 Agassiz says : — 



" "While I rejoice in the prospect of this 

 new building, as affording the means for a 

 complete exhibition of the specimens now 

 stored in our cellars and attics and encumber- 

 ing every room of the present edifice, I yet 



