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Index. 



Lota, coal deposits at, 163 

 Lowell Institute, lectures at, 87 

 Lyell, Sir Charles, 57 

 Lyman, Theodore, 212 



M 



Marcus, Dr., 128 



Martius, Herr von, (botanist), 26 ; 

 31, seq. ^ 



Method of Study in Natural His- 

 tory, 187 

 Methods of Study, 1 10 

 Mont Blanc, visit to, 68 

 Monte Rosa, ascent of, 70 

 Monthyon, prize of physiology 



awarded to Agassiz, 87 

 Motier, birthplace of Agassiz, i 

 Museum, bequest of Francis C. 

 Gray for the establishment of, 

 107-108 



Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 the, 107 ; dedication of, 109 ; 

 appropriation by Legislature in 

 behalf of, 149 ; Agassiz's report 

 upon, 149-15 I 



N 



Napoleon, Agassiz offered an ap- 

 pointment by, 103 

 National Academy of Sciences, 115 

 Negroes, discussion between Agas- 

 siz and Doctor Howe concerning, 

 114^ 



Neuchatel, Agassiz accepts a pro- 

 fessorship at, 49 

 Nicolet, M., 73, seq, 



P 



Para, 125 



Paris, Agassiz invited to, 106 

 Parker, Dr., tribute of, to Agassiz, 

 271-273 



Pecuniary aid of Humboldt to 



Agassiz, 46 

 Pedro, Dom, interest of in Agassiz's 



expedition, 120, seq, ; present of 



to Agassiz, 145 



Peirce, Professor Benjamin, 148 ; 



invites x^gassiz to go around Cape 



Horn, 157 ; letter to concerning 



glaciers, 158-160 

 Penikese, establishment of the 



Anderson School of Natural 



History at, 168 

 Pourtales, Count (meteorologist), 



73, 95 

 Poverty, trials of, 71 

 Prayer of Agassiz, The, poem by 



Whittier, 169-171 

 Preparation for threatened blind- 

 ness, 57 

 Princip les 0 f Zoology , i o I 

 Prussia, King of, a supporter of 



Agassiz, 80 

 Publication of first part of Brazilian 



Fishes, 36 



R 



Religious belief of Agassiz, 179 

 Rio Negro, Trip up the, 131- 

 146 



S 



San Francisco, reception at, 165 

 Santiago, 164 



" Saturday Club," gives a dinner to 



Agassiz, 112-113 

 Schinz, Professor, 14, 20 

 Schubert, (zoologist), 26 

 Scotland, visit to, 74 

 Scott, Rev. Dr. W. A., tribute of, 



259-263 

 Silliman, Professor, 86-178 

 Smithsonian Institution, action of 



in connection with the death of 



Agassiz, 267-273 

 Stearns, Robert E. C, tribute of, 



to Agassiz, 252-256 

 Stebbins, Dr. Howard, 192; tribute 



of, 256-9 

 Study at Munich, 24 

 Study of glacier system, 70 

 Stuttgart Museum, 25 



