NO. 375-] AGASSIZ AND THE ICE AGE. I7I 
blance to those which are distributed by glacial transportation. 
But in a later tour, in 1871 and 1872, around South America 
and through the Strait of Magellan, his glacial observations 
were very extended and of the highest value. 
Thus, when the end came, Agassiz had lived, not only to see 
his brilliant theory generally accepted in its main features, but 
himself to verify it in both hemispheres and in three of the 
great continental masses. When we remember that glacial 
studies were merely his avocation, occupying but the spare 
hours of one whose life was overcrowded with other work, our 
admiration both for the genius and the industry of this great 
man can find no adequate expression. His incidental work 
was really greater than that which is accomplished by the main 
efforts of most men. It is fitting that a glacial boulder from 
his native land should mark his burial-place in the cemetery at 
Mt. Auburn, where his body lies amid the glacial accumulations 
which he himself had made so luminous and so instructive. 
OBERLIN, December 18, 1897. 
