LOUIS AGASSIZ, 



TT would be unnatural to have such an assemblage 

 -^ as this meet in the Museum and Faculty Room 

 of this University and yet have no public word 

 spoken in honor of a name which must be silently 

 present to the minds of all our visitors. 



At some near future day, it is to be hoped, some 

 one of you who is well acquainted with Agassiz's 

 scientific career will discourse here concerning it, — 

 I could not now, even if I would, speak to you of 

 that of which you have far more intimate knowledge 

 than I. On this social occasion it has seemed that 

 what Agassi z stood for in the way of character and 

 influence is the more fitting thing to commemorate, 

 and to that agreeable task I have been called. He 

 made an impression that was unrivalled. He left 

 a sort of popular myth — the Agassiz legend, as 

 one might say — behind him in the air about us ; 

 and life comes kindlier to all of us, we get more 

 recognition from the world, because we call our- 

 selves naturalists, — and that was the class to which 

 he also belonged. 



