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and in a manner little in accordance with the royal munificence 
which has furnished the means of making this journey. * * My 
sphere is entirely circumscribed by the scientific world, and ail 
my ambition is limited to being useful to the branch of science 
which I particularly cultivate. With all this, I am no misan- 
been only by following this system of economy and voluntary 
seclusion; and the results which I have obtained thus far have 
rewarded me so well for the privations which I have suffered, that 
I have no temptation to adopt another style of life, even should I 
have hereafter, and especially in your country, more trouble than 
”? 
? . * . 
I have had to sustain it in my own. 
which, in 1848, unsettled everything in Europe. e single event, 
however, which perhaps more than any other determined him to 
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Survey, Prof. B. Peirce, in furtherance of the designs of his hon- 
ored predecessor, ; 
Agassiz’s incessant labors in the cause: of science, and his 
tis not now urpose to speak. Fitting record will be mad 
of all these hereafter. Not this nation o ly, but the world, has 
suffered a great loss. More than any man since Cuvier and Von 
umbold h known over the whole world. fa: 
