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Edward Hitchcock, Massachusetts. Fairman Rogers, Pennsylvania. 



J. S. Hubbard, United States Naval R. E. Rogers, Pennsylvania. 



Observatory, Connecticut. W. B. Rogers, Massacliusetts. 



A. A. Humphreys, United States L. M. Rutherfurd, New York. 



Army, Pennsylvania. Joseph Saxton, at large. 



J. L. Le Conte, United States Army, Benjamin Silliman, Connecticut. 



Pennsylvania. Benjamin Silliman, Jr., Connec- 

 J. Leidy, Pennsylvania. ticut. 



J. P. Lesley, Pennsylvania. Theodore Strong, New Jersey. 



M. F. Longstreth, Pennsylvania. John Torrey, New York. 



D. H. Mahan, United States Mili- J. G. Totten, United States Army, 



tary Academy, Virginia. Connecticut. 



J. S. Newberry, Ohio. Joseph Winlock, United States Nau- 

 H. A. Newton, Connecticut. tical Almanac, Kentucky. 



Benjamin Peirce, Massachusetts. Jeffries Wyman, Massachusetts. 



John Rodgers, United States Navy, J. D. Whitney, California. 



Indiana. 



LOUIS AGASSIZ 

 Born, May 28, 1807; died, December 14, 1873 

 Arnold Guyot remarked of Agassiz in 1 878 : 



" Agassiz, in more senses than one, is a unique figure in the history of the 

 scientific progress of our day. In Europe he already occupied among men of 

 science a position in some manner exceptional, I may say privileged, which no 

 other scientific man of equal or even superior merit has enjoyed. In this country, 

 during the last quarter of a century, he has been in the popular mind, more 

 than any other man, the representative of the faithful, unflinching devotee of 

 natural science. 



" In both hemispheres he found crowds of enthusiastic admirers ; in both he 

 became the center of a marvelous scientific activity, the guide of numerous fol- 

 lowers in the investigation of the mysteries of nature. Such facts reveal an 

 individuality of uncommon power which deserves our special attention." 



Louis Agassiz was born at Motier, in the Swiss Canton ot 

 Vaud, on May 28, 1807. He was the son of the pastor of the 

 village church, and was descended from French Huguenots. 

 His father accepted a call to the town of Orbe, at the foot of the 

 Jura, and young Agassiz's boyhood was spent among those 

 impressive surroundings, which doubtless first served to arouse 

 in him an interest in the study of nature. He returned hither in 



