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He was buried from the college chapel, the 

 students who loved him laying a wreath of laurel 

 upon the bier, and singing his requiem. The noble 

 mother, fortunately, had died six years before him. 



They buried him at Mount Auburn. From the 

 glacier of the Aar, not far from the spot where his 

 little hut once stood, they brought a boulder for 

 his monument, and from his old home in Switzer- 

 land, pine trees to grow beside his grave. He loved 

 both countries, and both have shared in his sacred 

 resting-place. 



His work will never cease. His museum at Cam- 

 bridge now has seventy-one rooms and twelve gal- 

 leries, with invested funds of over five hundred and 

 eighty thousand dollars, while the buildings and 

 collections are valued at about seven hundred thou- 

 sand dollars. It is now under the charge of Prof. 

 Alexander Agassiz, the son of Louis, and to his 

 constant generosity and devotion the museum is 

 deeply indebted. 



Agassiz said, " My hope is that there shall arise 

 upon the grounds of Harvard a museum of natural 

 history which shall compete with the British 

 Museum and with the Jardin des Plantes. Do not 

 say it cannot be done, for you cannot suppose that 

 what exists in England and France cannot be 

 reached in America. I hope even that we shall 

 found a museum which will be based upon a more 

 suitable foundation, and better qualified to advance 

 the highest interests of science than these institu- 

 tions of the old world." 



