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tivity which, in pombe ss Sat has placed this country,—be- 
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fore without useum of natural history, a zoological laboratory, 
or a well ieerae Scientific school—in the front rank of scientific 
activity. 
= have we dreaded the sad event which we now record. 
years since, the splendid physique of Agassiz showed evi- 
sence that his prodigious labors were overcoming his elasticity. 
His pabeanae strength, which had made him a stranger to fatigue 
of body or mind, yielded to the severer tax of the American cli- 
recognized the fact that to labor with his former activity was 
impossible and forbidden. Yet to live was for him, unavoidably, 
to labor; and to die in the harness, rather than to rity after the 
power to serve his fellow men was | passe , his aspiratio 
An excellent sketch of Agassiz’s life and labors, ie to 1860, 
will be found in the New American Cyclopedia, under his name; 
and a full list of his publications down to 1866, is contained in 
the Royal Society’s Catalogue of Scientific Works 
oy funeral was attended on the 18th of Count from Apple- 
n Chapel at Harvard University, without ceremony, and in a 
tae simplicity of style quite in harmony with his life, by 
a vast assembly of mourning friends from Boston and many 
neighboring and distant cities. The flags of the inithacipality of 
Boston were hung at half mast; and the bells were tolled during 
the obsequies. No eulogy was pronounced: the voice of the 
officiating clergyman broke the silence with the words: “I am 
the resurrection and the life.” To the solemn music of the “ Dead 
March in Saul,” the family and a ia near friends, with the Uni- 
versity authorities, left the chapel for Mount Auburn Cemetery, 
where now rests, by the side of his much loved friend, President 
Felton, all that is mortal of Louis Joun Se AGASSIZ 
How like a voice from another world sound now geet aR con- 
cluding his summary of Darwin’s publiéations: “I can only rejoice 
that the — has taken this turn, much as I Saeat from the 
treatment of the subject. It camnot be too soon gaobaatego that 
tory, 
roblem, sulcinating | in ee knowl ge of nor. sie al yer 
