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from France, from M. Galuzzi, who has been passing the 

 winter in the South, at Cannes. 



" The great and beautiful work of Agassiz (the first 

 two volumes) reached me only a few days since. It will 

 produce a great effect by the breadth of its general views 

 and by the extreme sagacity of its special embryological 

 observations. I never believed that this illustrious man, 

 who is no less a man of a constant and beautiful nature, 

 would accept the offers nobly made him in Paris. I was 

 sure that gratitude would bind him to a new country 

 where he finds a field so immense for his researches and 

 great means of assistance. I hope he may be inclined, 

 together with his great anatomical and physiological 

 labours among the inferior organisms, to give us also the 

 specific ichthyology of the numerous basins of the ' Far 

 West,' beginning with the Holy Empire of the Mormons. 



" Science has lately met with an immense loss here by 

 the unexpected death of the greatest anatomist of our 

 country, Prof. Johann Muller. This loss is as great for 

 science, as was for art the death of the immortal sculptor 

 Kauch. The universality of his zoological knowledge 

 in the inferior organizations placed Johann Muller near 

 Cuvier, having a great pre-eminence in the delicacy of 

 his anatomical and physiological work. He made long 

 and painful voyages, at his own expense, on the shores 

 of the Mediterranean and in the Northern Seas. It is 

 scarcely two }^ears since he came near perishing by ship- 

 wreck on the coast of Norway. He sustained himself 

 by swimming for more than half an hour, and considered 

 himself quite lost when he was wonderfully rescued. I 

 lose in him a friend who was very dear to me. He was 

 a man of great talent, and at the same time of a noble 



