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ave any control over the Teachers’ Fund. It was raised with the 
tnderstanding, plainly stated in the circulars issued at the time, 
that it would be devoted to carrying out the plans of Professor 
Agassiz for the museum at Cambridge. That this will be done 
with the full appreciation of the relations which existed between 
him and those who have borne such affectionate testimony to his 
memory, every teacher throughout the country may be sure. But 
the use suggested by your correspondent would have been a strange 
misappropriation of money contributed for a special purpose 
As to the charge which seems directed against the trustees of 
the museum, as well those of the Anderson School, that they have 
trodden on the memory of their former director, the fact that these 
boards include several of Professor Agassiz’s warmest friends, two 
of his favorite pupils, his brother-in-law, his son-in-law and his son, 
18 a sufficient refutation of this calumny. 
inally, no insults have ever been offered to Mr. Anderson by 
the trustees, unless their decision not to become indefinitely re- 
sponsible for the expenses of the school, and to close an institution 
which no one but themselves seemed inclined to support, can be 
80 construed. 
Cambridge, October 12, 1875. 
the Swedish expedition of 1868 to the north pole, by Prof. Selim 
Lemstrém of Helsingfors ; Ona dominant language for science, by 
me ea de Candolle; On underground ay ny by ©. A. 
é 5 -. ar 
June, 1872, to June, 1873, by A. De La Rive; On warming and 
ventilation, by A. Morin. : 
nder the head of Eranoroey, has been collected a series of 
valuable observations, comprising an account of ancient graves of 
California, by Paul Schumacher; also descriptions of various 
