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inquiries about California, and the friends whom he 

 met here. I congratulated him on the recovery of his 

 health, and heard his declaration that he had at his 

 command all the funds which he could well employ 

 for two years to come. Scarcely ten days have 

 passed since I received from an Eastern society a 

 request, which was made at the suggestion of Agassiz, 

 that I would prepare, or cause to be prepared, a 

 paper on the commerce of the Pacific in its relations 

 to San Francisco. Then came the telesfram that he 

 was gone. 



Agassiz is gone! His name is henceforth enrolled 

 among the immortals. Whatever personal deficien- 

 cies he may have had, whatever of the imperfections 

 or weaknesses which belong to humanity, will soon 

 be forgotten, and his worth will be more apparent as 

 the years roll on. Hereafter he will be remembered 

 with Linnaeus, and Cuvier, and Humboldt, and 

 others, whom the world delights to honor for their 

 scientific researches ; with Franklin, and Rumford, 

 and Faraday, who have made popular the sciences 

 which they have likewise advanced. So we lay upon 

 his tomb our perishable garland, and say. Farewell, 

 philosopher and philanthropist ! Farewell, our 

 teacher and our friend. 



AGASSIZ'S WORK AND METHOD. 

 Professor Joseph Le Conte. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen, Members of 

 THE Academy of Sciences : — I respond the more 

 willingly to your invitation to say something in 



