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lectures borrowed no interest from personal ad- 

 venture or incidents of travel, but dealt almost 

 wholly with the intellectual results and larger 

 scientific generalizations growing out of the 

 expedition. Later in the winter he gave a 

 course also at the Cooper Institute, in New 

 York, which awakened the same interest and 

 drew crowds of listeners. The resolution of- 

 fered by Bancroft, the historian, at the close 

 of the course, gives an idea of its character, 

 and coming from such a source, may not un- 

 fitly be transcribed here. 



Resolved, That the thanks of this great as- 

 sembly of delighted hearers be given to the 

 illustrious Professor Agassiz, for the fullness 

 of his instruction, for the clearness of his 

 method of illustration, for his exposition of 

 the idea as antecedent to form ; of the supe- 

 riority of the undying, original; and eternal 

 force over its transient manifestations; for 

 happy hours which passed too rapidly away ; 

 for genial influences of which the memory will 

 last through our lives. 



All his leisure hours during the winter of 

 1867 were given to the review and arrange- 

 ment of the great collections he had brought 

 home. 



