242 ALEXANDER AGASSIZ 



3. To run the machine which gives me the means of 

 so doing. 



4. To carry on my own scientific work. 



Most men are satisfied to do any one of 1, 3, 4, and 

 you must add the Corporation to this. It is true I have 

 stopped 2, practically. But to carry on my own scien- 

 tific work I must of necessity continue in charge of 3 

 (Calumet). I must find relief somehow, and the only 

 thing to do at my age is to withdraw from the Corpo- 

 ration — and do the same from the Museum as soon as 

 it is free of debt, and a suitable Curator can be found, 

 or as soon as my plans are matured for leaving Cam- 

 bridge, making my steamer my headquarters for the 

 winter and Newport for the summer. I have done my 

 share for the public and propose now to retire and do 

 a little at least of what interests me most. 



Notwithstanding the amount of time, from 1881 to 

 1890, which Agassiz devoted to the executive work of 

 the mine, the Museum, and the University, to say no- 

 thing of his enforced winter absences in search of 

 health, his writings during that period number no less 

 than fifty-nine titles. While many of these were of 

 course short articles, some of the more important publi- 

 cations were " Three Cruises of the Blake," — " Blake 

 Echini," " Coral Reefs of the Hawaiian Islands," and a 

 number of papers on the embryology and development 

 of bony fishes. 



