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seums wished for a set of such models, 

 and were willing to pay for them. Had 

 any scientific man or museum professed 

 inability to pay, whether for models or 

 for books, Agassiz would have provided 

 what was wanted, as a matter of course. 

 Humboldt remonstrated on his lavish dis- 

 tribution of complimentary copies of his 

 books ; but it is always the same story. 

 Agassiz had one object: that was the 

 advancement of science. If he could 

 avoid falling bankrupt by the way, it 

 was of course more agreeable 5 but a 

 man must not think too constantly of 

 himself. 



His unfortunate translation into French 

 and German of an English book on Con- 

 chology unfortunate because it appar- 

 ently did not occur to him that the 

 author regarded the thing as a money- 

 bringing investment stands almost 

 alone in that sort of work. Of a new 

 kind, again, are the Nomenclator Zoologicus 

 and the BibliograpJiia Zoologiae, an index 



