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Louis Agassiz. 



RESOLUTIONS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF 

 SCIENCES. 



Whereas, we, the members and associates of the 

 CaHfornia Academy of Sciences, have learned that 

 it has pleased Divine Providence to call our friend 

 and fellow-member. Professor Louis Agassiz, away 

 from his earthly labours ; Therefore be it 



Resolved, That in the death of Professor Agassiz 

 we recognise the loss of one whose life was passed 

 in earnest devotion to the advancement of Science 

 and the cause of liberal education ; whose labours in 

 this field have won for him an enduring fame 

 throughout both hemispheres ; whose efforts in this 

 his adopted country have, more than those of any 

 other individual, contributed to a wide popular 

 appreciation of the dignity, value, and importance of 

 scientific research, and to the necessity of incorpor- 

 ating in our schemes of education, instruction in 

 those laws which form the foundations of the 

 Natural Sciences and are inseparably connected with 

 our material and intellectual prosperity ; whose 

 geniality and enthusiasm in the pursuit of his 

 favourite studies, and whose unequalled power of 

 presenting the results of those studies to the public 

 in a simple and attractive form, have endeared to 

 the hearts of this nation, and especially to us and 

 others, who are more or less individually concerned 

 in the pursuit of scientific truth. 



Resolved, That we believe that to Professor Agassiz 

 and the pupils whom he influenced by his teachings 

 and example, we largely owe the adoption of that 



