Louis Agassiz. 



Agassiz, who modestly disclaimed any intention of 

 trying to impress me.'* 



The condition of the great naturalist's health was 

 such that he made no extended researches on the 

 Pacific Coast, and returned to Cambridge in October, 

 1872. There is never a scientific gathering of the 

 men of his time but he and his trip to the West 

 are remembered. In Arizona a lofty peak bears his 

 name. In Alaska one of the giant glaciers — a feeder 

 of the Great Malaspina Glacier, is called the Agassiz, 

 while over the divide, in the inter-continental region, 

 the name Agassiz is given to an ancient glacial lake 

 in Wyoming — all monuments of an enduring kind. 



