96 ' Prof. Agassiz’s Eulogy on Humboldt. 
his map. This j is the case with Sorata and Illimani. The ele- 
vations which have been ascertained, and further scientific ob- 
servations will be given ina volume soon to be published on 
the geography, statistics, &c. of the country. 
A statistical table appended to the map gives the population 
of Bolivia as follows for 1858: 
Provinces, Tnhab, 
La Paz, - - - - - - - 475,322 
Cochabamba, - - . - - - 319,892 
i SOR SS ee err 
Chuquisaca,  - - - - : - 223,668 
ruro, . - - - - - - 110,931 
Santa Cauz, - - - - - - 153,164 
Tarija;.. <= - - - - - - 88,900 
Veni, - - - - oa - 53,973 
Atacama, - . - - . - - 5,273 
Savage tribes, - - - - - - 245,000 
Total, : - - - 1,987,352 
The map appears to have been executed with great care in its 
details, and isa oo important contribution to the orography 
of South Ameri D.C. G 
ArT. XII.— Alexander von Humboldt. 
ALEXANDER VON HumsBoxpr died at Berlin on Friday the 
sixth of May, having been ill with a severe catarrh accompanied 
by fever since the 17th of April. 
Eulogy by pais AGAssiz, before the American ore of Arts 
d Sciences, delivered on the 24th of M 
Gentlemen :—I have been requested to present on an occasion 
some remarks upon the scientific career of HumBoxpr. So few 
days have elapsed since the sad news reached our shore, that I 
have had no time to prepare an elaborate account of that won- 
erful career, and I am not myself in a condition in which I 
could have done it, being deprived of the use of my eyes, so that 
1 had to rely upon the hand of a friend to make a few memo 
randa on a slip of paper, bare might enable me to present m 
thoughts in a somewhat regular order. But I have, since the 
day we heard of his death, recalled all my recollections of him; 
, if you will permit me, I will present them to you as they 
are novi ee. in my ees 
LDT— ALEXANDER VON HumBoxor, ah he always called 
hime though he was ohtagioned with the names of FREDERICK 
tH ALEXANDER,—was born in 1769, on et 14th of Sep- 
