562 Obituary. 



the long run, depend rather upon the wise uses to which he 

 devoted a considerable part of his fortune, than upon its ac- 

 quisition. 



Mr. Agassiz came to America in 1849, at the age of 14 years. 

 He graduated at Harvard in 1855; in 1857 he took the post- 

 graduate degree of B.S. in Civil Engineering ; and in Zoology in 

 1862 ; LL.D., 1885. In 1859-60 he was employed in the Coast 

 Survey, on the Pacific Coast, and on the Northwest Boundary 

 Survey. While there he made some collections of the marine 

 fauna for his father, and also sent him some very beautiful draw- 

 ings of acalephs, actiniae, etc., which the writer saw at that time, 

 and with which his father, Prof. Louis Agassiz, was very much 

 pleased. He returned to Cambridge, owing to the urgent desire 

 of his father, to continue his zoological studies and especially to 

 assist his father in the installation of the collections in the new 

 Museum building, which had then just been built and was not 

 finished. During the next few years he was an assistant in the 

 Museum, associated with Lyman, Hyatt, Shaler, Putnam, Packard, 

 Scudder, Morse, the writer, and others, many of whom have also 

 passed away. 



In 1866-7 he was induced to undertake the development of the 

 Calumet and Hecla mine, on Lake Superior, where he remained 

 as superintendent most of the time till 1869, and with which he 

 was connected as president or director till his death. While there, 

 in the early years, he experienced great hardships and exposure, 

 and contracted an illness from which he never fully recovered. 



He was appointed Curator and Director of the Museum, after 

 the death of his father, in 1874 and retained that position till 

 1898, when he resigned it. He was also fellow of Harvard 

 University, 1878 to 1884, and 1886-1890 ; overseer 1873-78 and 

 in 1885, and became Director of the University Museum of Har- 

 vard in 1902. 



He had been a member of the National Academy of Sciences 

 since 1866, and for a number of years was its president. More 

 recently he has been its Foreign Secretary, up to his death. 



He was a member of a large number of other scientific soci- 

 eties, both in this country and Europe, and received numerous 

 other honors. 



Among his earlier scientific expeditions was one to the Andes 

 and Lake Titicaca, in 1875, where he obtained many archeolog- 

 ical and zoological specimens. From 1877 to 1880 he spent most 

 of his winters in deep-sea dredging on the "Blake Expeditions," 

 mostly in the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico. The collections 

 thus obtained were very large and valuable and have given origin 

 to many valuable reports. Mr. Agassiz himself wrote the gen- 

 eral account of the work and its results in two volumes, " Three 

 Cruises of the Blake." He also made trips to the West Indies 

 and Bermuda, to study the geology of the coral reefs. He also 

 made an extended exploration of the great Barrier B-eef of Aus- 

 tralia, in a steamer chartered for the purpose in Australia, in 1896. 



