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and this ought to make an interesting Report. I have some 

 thirty Plates of that done and am pushing it fast. Some 

 of the Plates by Westergren are very beautiful, and I 

 really wish I could have got hold of him long ago for 

 my Challenger and Blake Plates. It is a real pleasure to 

 work with such an artist, who knows so much of the 

 subject himself and is perfectly enthusiastic on the sub- 

 ject. I expect next winter to pass a few weeks in Lon- 

 don and Paris to look at some Echini, and if I can man- 

 age it I shall try and run over and see my German 

 friends. 



Agassiz passed the winter of 1900-01 in Europe. 

 Most of his time he spent in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and 

 Leipzig, examining the collections of the more recent 

 deep-sea expeditions of the Travailleur, Talisman, Val- 

 divia, and Pola. While in Paris, he found time to allow 

 Jules Lefebvre to paint his portrait, for which some of 

 his friends had given a fund to the Harvard Corpora- 

 tion. This picture now hangs in the main entrance hall 

 of the Museum. Agassiz is represented standing, clad in 

 the scarlet robes of a doctor of Cambridge, England. 

 The portrait is academic and stiff, and hardly suggests 

 his character; it is, however, not out of harmony with 

 its surroundings, and is perhaps a more fitting memento 

 than a less formal likeness. Shortly after the picture 

 was hung in its place, an old German retainer of the 

 Museum was seen to pause before it a few moments, 

 and exclaim scornfully as he proceeded on his way : 

 " Hum ! — the Professor looks as if he had been speak- 

 ing French ! " 



