CHAPTER XIV. 



LIFE IN CAMBRIDGE. 



Continued Honours— Invitation to Paris — Receives the Order of the 

 Legion of Honour — Bequest of Francis C. Gray — The Museum 

 — Visit to Europe — Dedication of the Museum — Grov^^th of 

 Corals — The ' ' Contributions " — Fiftieth Birthday — Patriotism — 

 Founder of the National Academy, 



HE growing fame of Agas- 

 siz, his continued work in 

 science, and the accom- 

 pHshment of such grand 

 results in so varied fields 

 of investigation and re- 

 search kept him con- 

 stantly before the world, 

 and he was the continued 

 recipient of many honours. 

 Among the strong temp- 

 tations to leave the coun- 

 try of his choice was an 

 invitation from Paris in 1857, tendering him the 

 chair of Palaeontology in the Museum of Natural 

 History — a position until then held by the cele- 

 brated D'Orbigny. No offer that Agassiz had re- 



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