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the land a rare opportunity to enforce upon their pupils the lesson of the 

 boyhood and manhood of a great and good man, and to teach them the 

 appreciation of those great ideas of which he was an exponent. It has 

 led to meetings where Agassiz's methods of teaching have been explained 

 and discussed. To the established associations for the study of Nature 

 it has given a new impulse, and it has caused the formation of new ones, 

 particularly among the young. Teachers everywhere have found in tliis 

 plan to honor an eminent man, who claimed above all else that he, too, 

 was a teacher, a new motive to faithful service. In confirmation of this 

 opinion we quote from a letter lately received from Hon. Newton Bate- 

 man, the well-known superintendent of education of Illinois: "I am 

 sure that the indirect results of the movement have been exceedingly 

 valuable, — results that would have been cheaply secured by the expendi- 

 ture of - many times the amount of time, money, and labor that the whole 

 enterprise has cost." 

 It is proposed to keep the fund open permanently for contributions. 



A table showing the Amounts Cofiiribuied and the Number of Contributors 

 to the " Teachers and Pupils^ Fund " of the Agassiz Memorial from all 

 sources, to date. 



STATES. 



Contribu- 

 tors. 



Amount. 



Maine, . 



N. Hampshire, 



Vermont, 



Massachusetts, 



Rhode Island, . 



Connecticut, . 



New York, 



New Jersey, . 



Pennsylvania, . 



Maryland, 



Delaware, 



Dist. of Columbia, . 



Virginia, . 

 West Virginia, 

 N. Carolina, . 

 S. Carolina, . 

 Ohio, 



743 

 526 

 163 

 10,941 

 459 

 227 

 6,590 

 650 

 500 

 12,600 

 25 

 2 

 30 

 195 

 2 

 • 1 

 4,200 



183 90 

 64 00 



18 76 

 2,555 07 



140 05 

 54 36 

 1,106 97 

 216 99 

 108 81 

 815 33 



19 00 

 25 00 



5 

 25 

 2 



174 



STATES, 



Indiana, 



Michigan, 



Illinois, . 



Wisconsin, 



Minnesota, 



Iowa, 



Missouri, 



Kansas, . 



Nebraska, 



Colorado, 



Nevada, 



California, 



Texas, . 



England, 



Unknown, 



Total, . 



Contribu- 

 tors. 



214 

 1,755 

 30,380 

 2,376 

 1,166 

 919 

 10,975 

 315 

 59 

 390 

 290 



1 



2 



86,696 I $9,192 74 



Total number of conti'ibutors (estimated), 86,696. 

 Total of contributions, $9,192.74. 



For the Committee, 



James M. Babnaed, Treasurer, • 



