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require at least three hundred thousand dollars, of which about 
one-third would be used in enlarging the building, and two-thirds 
would be funded. , 
Tt is to be hoped that the people of America, for whom Agassiz 
unselfishly labored, and among whom he spent the best portion of 
his life, will not hesitate to carry on the work he began. His ex- 
ample and his teachings have benefited every section of the 
among us, 3 4 re 
But we would not appeal to the friends of liberal culture in t 8 
country alone. The works and the example of Agassiz are t 
Committee, 6 Oliver street, Boston. Coast 
2. Cycle of Magnetic declination.—Mr. Scuort, of the | pre 
Survey, has made an examination of the secular changes 0 
magnetic elements, based on all the observations taken at Was as 
ington since 1790. He finds that the magnetic declination share 
in a periodical manner, such as will cause it to return to its prese 
value in about two hundred and forty The dip of the ria 
dle is now slowly diminishing, and has continued to do so sl we 
1840, its annual change being ve early unifo The to 
