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The Chair announced that $65,000 had already been promised by 

 four subscribers. 



The meeting was then dissolved. 



The Committee appointed as above held a meeting immediately 

 after the general meeting, and completed their organization by the 

 choice of Hon. George T. Bigelow as permanent Chairman, S. B. 

 Schlesinger as Treasurer, and Roger Wolcott as Secretary. 



Col. Lyman, Dr. Clarke, and Prof. Rogers were appointed by the 

 Chair a sub-committee to prepare and issue an address explaining 

 the urgent need of a large fund, in order to insure the permanent 

 usefulness of the Museum, and inviting subscriptions from all parts 

 of the United States, and from all persons in Europe interested in 

 the advance of science. 



Mr. James M. Barnard, referring to Prof. Agassiz's modest recital 

 of himself in his will as " Teacher," suggested that the teachers and 

 pupils of the public schools of the United States should be invited 

 to join in the establishment of the Memorial, as the best means 

 of giving to it a national character, and that whatever sum might 

 be raised in this manner should constitute a separate fund to be 

 called the Teachers and Pupils' Fund. 



The Chair appointed Messrs. James M. Barnard and Edward J. 

 Lowell a sub-committee, with full powers to carry out this sugges- 

 tion. 



The Addresses issued by these sub-committees were widely circu- 

 lated. A copy of each is given herewith. 



*' It cannot he too soon understood that Science is one; and t?uU, whether we investi- 

 gate language, philosophy, theology, history, or physics, we are dealing with the same 

 problem, culminating in the knoicledge of ourselves." — L. Agassiz. 



In removing Louis Agassiz, death has deprived us of one who, for the 

 last quarter of a century, has done more than any other person to stimu- 

 late in this country the study of Nature, and a spirit of scientific investi- 

 gation. Twenty-eight years ago he left Switzerland, his native land, for 

 the United States, and became an American citizen. Those twenty-eight 

 years he gave to unremitted labor in behalf of that higher education, 

 which, by the public at large, was little understood. His interest was 

 confined to no town or State, to no individual or class. He journeyed 

 much ; and, wherever he went, there his pupils were. He might have 

 rested on the reputation he brought from Europe, and, by lecturing and 

 writing, have made a fortune. Such a life, however, he would not, or 

 perhaps could -not, live. At the age of sixty-seven his brain gave way, 

 and he died, leaving no wealth but his name, his example, and his works. 



It would not be grateful for the country, nor would it be for the coun- 

 try's interest, that Agassiz should pass away without a fitting memorial. 

 Such a memorial can be made out of the great Museum which he began 



