The Agassiz Memorials. 273 



To Louis Agassiz belongs the distinction of hav- 

 ing awakened, in a remarkable degree, a spirit of scien- 

 tific inquiry, and of having discovered changes our 

 planet has undergone, through the influence of laws 

 he was the first to demonstrate, arriving at such a 

 knowledge of their operations that it may be truly 

 said of him that the remote consequences of these 

 laws, first predicted by his theory^ were^ in repeated 

 instances^ most signally verified upon two continerits 

 by his observations. 



In the circumstances of his departure from this 

 life, there were peculiar mercies that call for grateful 

 recognition. Fears were at one time entertained, 

 and not without cause, lest he might linger through 

 years of suffering, deprived of reason ; but he and 

 his loving family have been spared that affliction, 

 and he has been, as it were, translated, to resume, 

 or rather to continue, on a higher plane, his advance 

 in the knowledge of the works of the Creator, with 

 devout and endlessly increasing adoration of their 

 Divine Author. 



On motion of Dr. Parker, the resolutions were 

 unanimously adopted. 



Memorial of the Boston Natural History Society. 



The Memorial of the Boston Natural History So- 

 ciety, of which Agassiz was a prominent member, is 

 especially interesting, as it gives many facts relating 

 to the Humboldt Celebration. The address was 



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