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Louis Agassiz. 



And now we say, good-bye ! The form we knew 

 and called by his name will soon fade away ; but the 

 effacing fingers of decay can never mar the record of 

 his noble life. 



At the conclusion of this paper, which, owing to 

 the absence of Mr. Stearns, was read by Dr. E. S. 

 Carr, the latter remarked as follows : 



Yes, Mr. President, Agassiz is not dead. He has 

 gone to sit with Humboldt and Cuvier, with Plato 

 and Aristotle, among the stars ; the voice of human- 

 ity, echoing down the corridors of time, and gather- 

 ing fulness, through the coming ages, will ever 

 proclaim as long as a love of knowledge endures — 

 Agassiz still lives. 



AGASSIZ'S PLACE IN SCIENCE. 

 Rev. Dr. Horatio Stebbins. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: — It 

 would not be appropriate to me in this presence, and 

 after what has been said by those who have pre- 

 ceded me, to undertake to give a rhum^ of Agassiz's 

 scientific thought, or to sketch his career as one of 

 the great interpreters of nature's law ; but while I 

 have been sitting here listening to the words of 

 others, and looking into your faces, I have been im- 

 pressed anew by that cheerful, harmonious accord of 

 reason, intelligence, and all magnanimous sentiments 

 with which we acknowledge human greatness. With 

 what refreshing admiration — with what proud, grate- 

 ful, sympathising joy do we stand on these level 



