CHAPTER XVII 



1900-1902 

 THE MALDIVES 



As usual in his later years, Agassiz spent the summer 

 of 1900 at Newport, busy working over the reports of 

 his previous expeditions. 



TO ERNST EHLERS 



Castle Hill, Newport, 

 Sept. 1, 1900. 



I am hard at work on my Report of my last expedi- 

 tion to Pacific, and hope soon to issue a short prelimi- 

 nary Report on the final results of the trip with charts 

 of the route, and next will come I hope my Report on 

 the Coral Reefs of the Pacific, which should be one of 

 my best things, for the amount of material I have col- 

 lected for that is colossal both in way of photographs 

 and in the way of ground covered by the Albatross. 

 But I fear it will take about two years of the hardest 

 kind of work, and I find I do not work quite so readily 

 now as I did twenty years ago. The side issues of the 

 expedition will take a good deal of time also, but I hope 

 with the help of the collaborators I have to get out the 

 results in due time, and there is still a good deal left of 

 the Blake and of the 1891 Expedition of Albatross, and 

 before all the Reports are out my own share of laying 

 out the results as a whole must remain in abeyance. The 

 Echini of the 1891 Expedition are now well under way 



