Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...makeup examination in N. H. 4 for those who did not take the last hour examination, will be held tomorrow at 4 o'clock in Room 2 of the Agassiz Museum...
Professor Goodale has secured $50,000 of the necessary $75,000 for building an addition to the Agassiz Museum...
...consequence of the growth of the botanical and zoological departments of the University, an addition to the Agassiz Museum has become a matter of imperative necessity. Thanks to the vigorous efforts of Professor Goodale, the sum of $50,000 has already been subscribed towards the $75,000 which is needed to pay for the new building. Plans have been prepared for an additional section of the great museum to give increased accommodation to the departments of geology and geography. Another section will include the botanical laboratories and a botanical museum, the materials for which have been accumulating for several years...
...difficult to point to any other scientific man, with the single exception of Charles Darwin, who has in his own department of learning so entirely impressed himself upon the intellectual growth of a nation. No greater void in the scientific world has been made since the death of Louis Agassiz, the naturalist...
...Lowell, toward the fund for a botanic garden, $1000; Henry Gassett estate, for sustaining annual dinner of the class of 1834, $1000; Robert Treat Paine, to found the Robert Treat Paine fellowship of social science, $10,000; Uriah A. Boyden estate, $237,387.78; from an anonymous friend, per Mr. Agassiz, $2500; Henry Lee, $1500 for the salary of an instructor in political economy; Mrs. Henry Draper of New York, $4500 for prosecuting researches in stellar photography; Robert Waterston, $1000 for the library; Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, $2000 for salaries in the herbarium; Martin Brimmer, $2000; and John L. Gardner...