4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



A bronze tablet with the following inscription: — 



Museum 



and 



Laboratories 



of 



Geology and Geography 



erected 



By the Children of Louis Agassiz 



1901 



lias been set in the wall of the entrance hall of the southwestern 

 corner of the University Museum. 



The life size portrait of Louis Agassiz painted in 1842 by Fritz 

 Zuberbiihler (1 822-1 S96) has been hung on the east wall of the 

 northwestern section of the Museum where it is visible alike to 

 students and to visitors. It comes to the Museum as a gift of the 

 children of Alexander Agassiz. 



Mrs. Henry L. Higginsoo has given a flag inscribed on one side 



Hotel des Xeuchatelois 

 and on the other 



Kein Felsen Widersteht 



So fest der Mancht der Zeit, 



Als festen Willens 



Bestaendigkeit 



words well known to all familiar with the work of Louis Agassiz 

 among the glaciers of the Alps. The flag has been placed in the 

 Geological Museum. 



For additions to its year's income the thanks of the Museum 

 are due Messrs. Gorham Brooks, Louis Cabot, Theodore Lyman, 

 and John C. Phillips. 



In May, 1907, the Museum installed as a gift of Mr. Agassiz a 

 model of the coral island Bora Bora, and shortly afterwards Mr. 

 Agassiz arranged with Mr. George C. Curtis, whose Bora Bora 

 was so satisfactory a piece of workmanship, for a model of the 

 classic atoll, Funafuti. 



One of the Ellice Islands, situated in the Middle Pacific, Funa- 

 futi was selected as an atoll showing an extremely narrow land 



