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natural history library, which will number about twelve thou- 

 sand volumes. 



It will hereafter be the main object of the committee of 

 the Museum appointed by the trustees, to see that the views 

 of Professor Agassiz so fully incorporated in the directions 

 he was accustomed to give to his assistants* should be fully 

 carried out, and they hope that his successors will faithfully 

 complete the plans laid out with so much care and forethought 

 by the founder of the Museum. Thus only can they hope 

 to show to the public, who have thus far so generously aided 

 him, what his aims were, and to erect to him a monument 

 which will not only be a valuable historic record of the inter- 

 pretation of nature by one of its most enthusiastic wor- 

 shippers, but a monument of a lifelong and disinterested 

 devotion to the best interests of science and of general edu- 

 cation. 



For the Museum Committee, 



ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. 



Cambridge, January, 1874. 



* These directions will be printed in one of the forthcoming Museum Bulletins. 



The reports of the assistants in charge of the various 

 departments are herewith submitted. 



