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COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Jan. 



mon with all who knew Agassiz, could testify to the broad humanity, 

 the genial charm, and true disinterestedness of his character. 



Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes compared the unfinished work of 

 Agassiz to a cathedral left incomplete at the death of the architect. 

 In each case the noblest memorial is the completion of the work. 

 Like St. Paul's Cathedral, this would be the truest and most lasting 

 monument to him who had planned it. 



On motion of Mr. James M. Barnard, the Chair was requested to 

 appoint a committee of not less than thirty, with power to add to 

 their number, whose duty it should be to take measures to raise a 

 fund for the Agassiz Memorial. 



The Chair announced the following-named persons as constituting 

 the Committee : — 



John A. Lowell. 

 Nathaniel Thayer. 

 George T. Bigelow. 

 John M. Forbes. 

 Abbott Lawrence. 

 Theodore Lyman. 

 Sebastian B. Schlesinger. 

 Martin Brimmer. 

 James M. Barnard. 

 E. R. Mudge. 

 James L. Little. 

 Moses Kimball. 

 George B. Loring. 

 John Cummings. 

 George C. Richardson. 

 Prof. William B. Rogers. 

 Roger Wolcott. 

 Alpheus Hardy. 

 Otis Norcross. 

 Francis E. Parker. 

 Edward J. Lowell. 

 Alexander H. Rice. 

 O. W. Holmes, Jr. 



J. Ingersoll Bowditch. 

 Edward H. Clarke. 

 H. Cabot Lodge. 

 Lewis Cabot. 

 William Gaston. 

 Prof. Benjamin Peirce. 

 Charles Francis Adams. 

 Henry P. Kidder. 

 Augustur Flagg. 

 T. G. Cary. 



Prof. James Hall, Albany. 

 Prof. James D. Dana, New Haven. 

 Prof. A. Guyot, Princeton. 

 Dr. J. H. Ranch, Chicago. 

 Pres. Gillman, San Francisco. 

 Dr. H. Wheatland, Salem. 

 Pres. A. S. White, Ithaca. 

 Pres. Caswell, Providence. 

 Prof. Joseph Henry, Washington. 

 Prof. N. S. Shaler, Cincinnati. 

 Pres. Barnard, New York. 

 Prof. J. P. Lesley, Philadelphia. 

 Dr. George Engelman, St. Louis. 



To this Committee were subsequently added the names of Geo. 

 P. King, E. P. Whipple, Chas. L. Peirce, Thomas G. Appleton, and 

 William S. Appleton of Boston, Prof. Joseph Leidy and Prof. Fair- 

 man Rogers of Philadelphia, and George Davidson and Thomas S. 

 Hoyt of San Francisco. 



