446 ALEXANDER AGASSIZ 



a couple of days — on to Rome ditto, and have engaged 

 our passage for New York on the Adriatic to sail the 

 23d. 



I expect to be a few days in Cambridge before the 

 meeting of the Academy in Washington the 19th of 

 April, then back to Quincy Street, then to Calumet 

 early in May, and then to Newport so as to be there 

 last part of May ready for business. What are your 

 plans? Love to George. 



On his way home he passed through London, where 

 he dined with Murray and a number of his scientific 

 colleagues just before sailing. He took passage in the 

 Adriatic on March 23 ; a few days out he spent the 

 evening chatting in the smoking-room with a few 

 friends, and went to bed apparently cheerful and con- 

 tented. Sometime early the next morning, on Easter 

 Sunday, March 27, he died quietly in his sleep. Fit- 

 tingly upon the ocean, in whose mysteries he had so 

 deeply delved, his mother Nature whispered to him her 

 great secret, and led him peacefully and painlessly into 

 the unknown. He lies beside the wife of his youth, 

 whom he had buried thirty-six years before in Forest 

 Hills. 



