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 PROFESSOR ACASSIZ. 



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A meeting of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology was held at the council chamber at the state house on 

 Wednesday, December 24. His Excellency Governor Wash- 

 burn presided, and the Hon. Martin Brimmer presented the 

 following Resolutions : — 



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Resolved, That we desire to record our sense of the irreparable 

 loss which the Museum has to bear in the death of Louis Agassiz, 

 who conceived the plan of it, who made the first gift which led to 

 its foundation, whose thought directed its whole organization, and 

 whose enthusiasm, kindling the public feeling, created all its re- 

 sources. 



Resolved, That much as we value his scientific achievements, we 

 value even more the disinterested devotion to science and education, 

 the high and broad aims and the generous s} T mpathies which gave 

 him such beneficent power as a teacher and a man, and the fine 

 nature which made every one who knew him his friend. 



Resolved, That the president of the Board be requested to send a 

 copy of these resolutions to the family of Mr. Agassiz, in testimony 

 of our sympathy and sorrow. 



Governor Washburn then spoke as follows : — 



Whether these Resolutions ought to be adopted without any 

 remarks of my own or not, I have but a simple word to offer, 

 and that is that I feel that the relations of Professor Agassiz 

 to the Commonwealth were such that we meet with an irre- 

 parable loss by this sudden stroke which has fallen upon us ; 

 that it is not simply the position which he occupied as the 

 manager and the head of this institution, but the position 

 which he occupied was such that a gap has been made which 

 it seems to-day impossible to fill. I feel that the influence 

 which he has exerted in almost every department of science, 

 and particularly with reference to his own branch of the agri- 

 cultural institutions of this State, gave such impetus as we 



