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accessible to all able to make a proper use of them, he 

 built up a Geographical exhibit. The difficulties of such 

 an exhibition are so well known that none of the other 

 great museums of the world have attempted to have one. 

 There are but two in Europe, one in Dublin, and the 

 other in Dresden, both on a comparatively small scale. 

 Writing on this subject in the first Museum Report 

 after Agassiz's death, Mr. Henshaw the present Direc- 

 tor, says : " And yet so successfully and with so true a 

 sense of proportion did Mr. Agassiz develop the whole 

 Museum, that the distinguished English naturalist, 

 Wallace, stated in 1887 that as an educational institu- 

 tion for the public, for students, and for the special 

 investigator, the Museum of Comparative Zoology was 

 superior to the British Museum and ' probably equally 

 in advance of every other European museum.' " 



In the northwest entrance hall are two tablets that 

 will stand till it crumbles with our civilization into dust: 

 one to the father by the son whose filial care embodied his 

 ideals — 



LVDOVICI 



AGASSIZ 



PATRI — FILIVS 



ALEXANDER 

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