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Then came his Brazilian journey, with the immense zoological 
treasures accruing. Hardly resting from this exploration he or- 
ganized the Hassler Expedition around the continent of South , 
America, under the auspices of the Coast’Survey, and recuperated 
his shattered health on that long voyage. Finally, he established, 
with the aia of its liberal founder, the Anderson School of N atural 
History, and it was there in his disinterested labors in behalf of 
improved methods of teaching in our higher and normal schools 
that he undoubtedly overworked himself and lost the strength to 
resist the strain of duties and cares that multiplied during the 
succeeding autumn. 
He died literally in the harness; full of plans for the develop- 
ment of his great museum, for the enlargement and full success of 
the Anderson School at Penekese Island, meanwhile doing origi- 
nal work at the museum, writing a course of articles for the “ At- 
lantic Monthly,” and preparing some papers for this journal ; all 
this, while performing his college duties in the lecture rooms and 
laboratories of the museum, with a course of popular Jectures at 
Washington on his hands, and meanwhile not unmindful of the 
calls of social life. 
Professor Agassiz was perhaps the most widely known and 
popular man in the United States. In his death it may be said 
that science has lost one of its most gifted followers, and humani- 
ty, in his long devotion to all that tends to elevate the race, one 
of its best types. 
Ir will be seen by the following letter, dated San Francisco, Cal., 
Dec. 2, 1873, from Mr. W. H. Dall, that the explorations of 
which he has charge have been quite successful :— 
“We have had a very successful season, though the spring was 
a very late one, and have accomplished more than I dared to hope 
at first. Our work lay in the islands between Attu and the Shu- 
magins. We have visited nearly every point of interest in the 
