1876.] 



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tiinity to secure a means of education which money cannot buy, and the 

 future may not give. 



The Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge is an independent 

 establishment, governed by a faculty of its own. It was founded fifteen 

 years ago by Agassiz, and has grown to its present large proportions 

 under his hand. In connection with it is the newly-established School of 

 Experimental Zoology on the Island of Penikese, endowed by Mr. Ander- 

 son of New York. The system of instruction has the widest character, 

 and includes elementary teaching, as well as the highest investigations. 

 The exhibition-rooms are free to the public. Large sums have already 

 been expended in bringing this national museum to its present condition. 

 Its collections, in several branches, are superior to those of tlie British 

 Museum or the Garden of Plants. To make such an establishment use- 

 ful, it must have a large building, and a considerable annual income ior 

 the payment of professors and assistants. To perfect the grand plan 

 conceived by Agassiz will require at least three hundred thousand dol- 

 lars, of which about one-third would be used in enlarging the building, 

 and two-thirds would be funded. 



It is to be hoped that the people of America, for whom Agassiz unsel- 

 fishly labored, and among whom he spent the best portion of his life, 

 will not hesitate to carry on the work he began. His example and his 

 teachings have benefited eveiy section of the country. The Museum he 

 planned and founded will, if suitably endowed, become an ever-increas- 

 ing source of scientific and practical usefulness to the nation and the 

 world. We cannot doubt, therefore, that this appeal will be answered 

 by the public in the same generous spirit in which Agassiz devoted his 

 genius to the furtherance of science and to the advancement of education 

 among us. 



But we would not appeal to the friends of liberal culture in this coun- 

 try alone. The works and the example of Agassiz are the precious 

 legacy left by him to all nations ; and we feel sure that in the great 

 centres of scientific activity in the Old World, where his genius received 

 its first impulses and achieved its earliest triumphs, there will be felt an 

 earnest desire to aid in a work, which, while commemorating the labors 

 and influence of Agassiz, will be an endunng source of scientific discov- 

 ery and inspiration. 



Agassiz Memorial Committee. 

 John A. Lowell. Francis E. Parker. 



Nathaniel Thayer. Edward J. Loavell. 



George T. Bigeloav. Alexander H. Rice. 



John M. Forbes. O. W. Holmes, Jr. 



Abbott Lawrence. J. Ingersoll Bowditch. 



Theodore Lyman. E. P. Whipple. 



Sebastian B. Schlesinger. Dr. Edward H. Clarke. 

 Martin Brimmer. H. Cabot Lodge. • 



James Barnard Lewis Cabot. 



E R. MuDGE. William Gaston. 



J.\MES L. Little. Prof. Benjamin Peirce. 



Moses Kimball. CharIes Francis Adams. 



