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interesting new stalked Crinoid, closely allied to Apio- 

 crinus, and one of the most interesting finds from the 

 deep sea. It was collected by the Albatross — Fish Com- 

 mission steamer — off one of the Galapagos. Of course 

 all this is hung up to my great disgust, and the doctor 

 says it will be fully a month before I can hope to be at 

 work regularly again. 



I was glad to hear you had cast the dust of London 

 from your feet and were quite well again in your new 

 home in the country and able to do quite as much work 

 as you like. By the way, a few days before I knocked 

 off work, Murray wrote me he should only publish one 

 more volume of the Challenger, and a supplementary 

 number containing your Memoir on Spirula. If you 

 have quite done with my specimen I should be glad to 

 have it again. The best way of shipping it would be to 

 put the bottle in a small box and leave it at the London 

 office of the Cunard Line, asking them to send it- to 

 Boston by their first steamer. 



By the spring of 1889, the facade of the Museum 

 building had been completed, with the exception of the 

 corner piece. Except for the sections of botany and min- 

 eralogy, built by subscriptions collected with Agassiz's 

 help by Professors Goodale and Cooke, nearly all the 

 building and the publications, as well as most of the col- 

 lections in the Museum of Comparative Zoology proper, 

 had been, since the death of his father, at Agassiz's 

 expense. 



Dr. Brown-Sequard, an old friend of the family, in 

 writing to Agassiz about this time says : " I am very 

 glad, indeed, that you are carrying out so fully the grand 

 ideas of your father as regards the Museum. When you 



