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On Agassiz's return, he gave a course of lectures 

 before the Lowell Institute, and the Cooper Insti- 

 tute, New York, spending the summer at his pleas- 

 ant seaside home and laboratory at Nahant. 



The fisherman at Nahant would pull two or three 

 miles to bring him a rare fish ; and only for the 

 pleasure of seeing him rush out of his little labora- 

 tory, crying : " Oh ! where did you get that ? That 

 is a species which goes as far as Brazil. Nobody 

 has ever seen it north of Cape Cod. Come in, 

 come in, and sit down ! " 



In 1868, Agassiz, invited by Mr. Samuel Hooper, 

 joined a party of friends in an excursion to the 

 Kocky Mountains. This year he was appointed 

 non-resident professor at Cornell University, Ith- 

 aca, New York. 



The Massachusetts Legislature now gave seventy- 

 five thousand dollars, and private individuals an 

 equal sum, to provide for the new collections at the 

 museum. Later, the museum received from the 

 Legislature twenty-five thousand more, and a birth- 

 day gift to Agassiz, of one hundred thousand dol- 

 lars, was also used by him for his precious work. 

 September 15, 1869, at the Humboldt Centennial 

 Celebration, Agassiz delivered an eloquent address 

 before the Boston Society of Natural History, and 

 the " Humboldt Scholarship " was founded at the 

 museum. The bread cast upon the waters by 

 Humboldt had been found after many days. 



Agassiz was now completely prostrated by over- 

 work, and told by his physician that for the sev- 



