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...Boston; E. C. Felton '79, of Haverford, Pa.; G. von L. Meyer '79, of Washington, D. C.; C. M. Weld '80, of Boston; E. S. Rousmaniere '83, of Boston; L. E. Sexton '84, of New York, N. Y.; W. C. Boyden '86, of Chicago, Ill.; R. L. Agassiz '92, of Boston; F. Winsor '93, of Concord; C. T. Bond '94, of Baltimore, Md.; J. D. Greene '96, of New York...
...John Murray, K.C.B., F.R.S., LL.D., D.Sc., Ph.D., who delivered the Agassiz Memorial lecture last Wednesday, will conduct a geological conference in the Geological Lecture Room of the University Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. His subject will be "The Coval Reef Problem." The conference will be open to graduates and members of the University...
Alexander Agassiz directed three expeditions of the U. S. S. "Blake" in the Atlantic and three of the U. S. S. "Albatross" in the Pacific. At his personal expense he also fitted out no less than four vessels for research work in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It would be difficult to overestimate the value of the zoological and other collections which he amassed during these explorations. This researches take us a long way toward the solution of exceedingly interesting and important oceanic problems, and his work on coral-reefs, carried on almost entirely at his own expense, related...
...Agassiz came to America from Germany in 1849, when thirteen years old, and received his later education at Harvard, where he was graduated in 1855, and at the Lawrence Scientific School, where he received the degree of S.B. in 1857. Ten years later he turned his attention to the Calumet and Hecla copper mines on Lake Superior, and in consequence of his ability, attention, devotion, and business habits made them a great financial success. Yet even at this busy period we find the dominant note of Alexander Agassiz's life continuously sounded,--the desire...
...Arctic and Antarctic ice-fields with the satisfaction of all bodily requirements reduced to a minimum and burdened with a load of scientific instruments. Other men expose their bodies to the attacks of pestilential microbes for the advance of knowledge and the betterment of man's estate, while Alexander Agassiz rises with difficulty, when over-whelmed with sickness, and has his mattress laid on the deck of the tossing steamer in order that he may the better record the message which the dredge or trawl has brought to light from the dark abysses of the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean...