790 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



labor from his limbs, as the months preceding it had exacted from his brain. 

 In fact, he seemed, up to the period of his first attack of disease, utterly in- 

 sensible to bodily as to mental fatigue. 



In the midst of this active career of usefulness, after a summer of un- 

 usual exertion in the establishment of his School of Natural History, Pro- 

 fessor Agassiz, who had already suffered some symptoms of failing health, 

 was, in the beginning of December, 1873, suddenly stricken down by an 

 attack of paralysis, and, after a few days of lingering illness, on the night of 

 the 14th expired at his residence in Cambridge, Mass. His death was 

 attended by the profoundest regret and the noblest tributes to his memory 

 in America, and by the friends of science throughout the civilized world. 

 We conclude with a few lines from the poem " Agassiz," by J. Russell 

 Lowell : 



" We have not lost him all ; he is not gone 

 To the dumb herd of them that wholly die ; 

 The beauty of his better self lives on 

 In minds he touched with fire, in many an eye 

 He trained to Truth's exact severity ; 

 He was a Teacher : why be grieved for him 

 Whose living v/ord still stimulates the air? 

 In endless file shall loving scholars come, 

 The glow of his transmitted touch to share, 

 And trace his features with an eye less dim 

 Than ours whose sense familiar want makes dumb.*' 



