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eral months in which he remained shut up in his 

 room he must not think. Yet he could not banish 

 one subject from his thoughts, and, with tears in 

 his eyes, he would sometimes exclaim, " Oh, my 

 museum ! my museum ! always uppermost, by day 

 and by night, in health and in sickness, always 

 always ! " 



The great mind rallied for one more voyage of 

 research in his beloved science. In the coast-sur- 

 vey steamer Hassler, with his wife and friends, he 

 sailed December 4, 1871, around Cape Horn, land- 

 ing at several places along the coast, gathering rich 

 treasures from deep-sea dredgings, entering the 

 Golden Gate August 24, 1872. 



In October, Agassiz returned to Cambridge. 

 Through the gift of Mr. John Anderson, a wealthy 

 New York merchant, of the island of Penikese, 

 in Buzzard's Bay, with its buildings and an endow- 

 ment of fifty thousand dollars, a summer school of 

 natural history was at once opened. This year 

 was a very busy one. A series of articles were in 

 preparation for the " Atlantic Monthly," in opposi- 

 tion to the views of Darwin on evolution. He had 

 already published two successful books, " Methods 

 of Study in Natural History," and "Geological 

 Sketches." December 2, 1873, a lecture was given 

 at Fitchburg, before a meeting of the Massachu- 

 setts Board of Agriculture. The next day Agassiz 

 spoke of dimness of sight, and of feeling "strangely 

 asleep," and on December 14 he was asleep in 

 death. 



