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cannot expect to derive from any other source, and that his 

 influence and the power and honor which he conferred upon 

 those institutions and the State to which he belonged were 

 not by any means confined to our own domain, but extended 

 throughout the country, so that he was recognized as the 

 leading scientific man of the land, and perhaps few in the 

 world would be considered his equal, and if any are con- 

 sidered his superiors I do not know w T ho they are. Certainly 

 we have felt that the work he has done for us was most valua- 

 ble ; but I wish to say, in relation to the passage of these 

 Resolutions, that, as an individual, I have learned to admire 

 the energy and strength and the enthusiasm which he brought 

 to bear to all the subjects to which he gave attention. As a 

 representative of the State I feel that a blow has come upon 

 us, and to-day we cannot see how it is to be obviated and 

 who is to fill the great gap which has been made. 



Speech of Hon. George B. Loeing. 



Mr. President : — I feel grateful to the accident of this 

 public station, for the opportunity it affords me to contribute 

 to the universal and world-wide expression of eulogy and 

 sorrow at the death of Agassiz. The unbounded recognition 

 of his greatness, the deep lament caught up where he died 

 and borne by the circling hours around the globe, the rever- 

 ent tribute to his genius, the affectionate tribute to his great 

 love, all belong to that spontaneous outburst of grief and 

 adoration which mankind always bestows upon the great and 

 good. For ourselves, however, we have a closer duty to per- 

 form, a tenderer feeling to express, a more intimate relation 

 to recognize, a more sacred obligation to obey. When the 

 great naturalist passed away he left in our hands the monu- 

 ment to his genius still incomplete, to the erection of which 

 he devoted the best years of his life, the best powers of his 

 mind and body, and around which centered his highest hopes 

 and aspirations. He made great contributions to science, 

 roused the cultivated thought of his day, opened many new 

 paths to knowledge, explored and completed many old ones* 

 was a great investigator and a great interpreter ; — but it was 

 in the Museum of Comparative Zoology that he proposed to 

 learn and record the profound lesson of creation, which he 



