272 ALEXANDER AGASSIZ 



On his way East he made his semiannual visit to Cal- 

 umet, reaching Newport in time for a late summer there. 



TO SIR JOHN MURRAY 



Castle Hill, Newport, 

 August 2, 1892. 



Thanks to sundry washouts we were delayed along 

 the line of the North Pacific and I found more to do at 

 Calumet than I expected, so did not reach here till long 

 after you sailed. I found your magnificent volume on the 

 deep-sea deposits and you are to be congratulated for 

 so fine a result. I 've only had time to turn over the 

 leaves and look at the Plates and expect to read it care- 

 fully later. I've been here for a few days and found the 

 Laboratory in full blast here. I hardly think I shall be 

 able to do much work myself ; the accumulations during 

 my absence are prodigious, and it will be all I can 

 manage to get my head above water by the fall. I am 

 thinking of building a new seagoing launch for work 

 in connection with the Laboratory here. I wish you 

 could ship me one over here whole from the other side, 

 free of duty as a piece of philosophical apparatus ! My 

 last launch was intended to be a phenomenon, and so 

 she proved; she was so utterly unseaworthy that I was 

 afraid to go out in her in an ordinary seaway, and she 

 now graces the Hudson River, when the seas are not 

 over an inch high, that she can stand. 



About this time Agassiz published an extensive mono- 

 graph on Calamocrinus diomedse, a deep-sea crinoid 

 first dredged off the Galapagos by the Albatross on her 

 way to San Francisco in 1888, of which he had found 

 an additional specimen in a trawl off Mariato Point in 



