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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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ntific work carried on by governmental aid. We may lament, with John Tyndall, that so brilliant an investigator and discoverer as Henry should have been sacrificed to become so able an administrator. And American devotees to mathematico-physicalscience may be pardoned for entertaining an elegiac regret that Henry as a pioneer in the fields of electromagnetism did not have the aid of apenetrating mathematical genius, as Faraday had his Maxwell. But posterity, just in its estimates towards all the world, will recognize in Henry, as we have recognized in our earlier hero, Benjamin Franklin, a many-sided man — a profound student of Nature; a teacher whose moral and intellectual presence pointed straight to the goal of truth; an inventor who dedicated his inventions immediately to the public good; a discoverer of the permanent laws which reign in the Sphinx-like realm of physical phenomena; an administrator and organizer of large enterprises which have yielded a rich fruitage for the enlighten- 16
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LOUIS AGASSIZ Born, Motier, Switzerland, May 28, 1807, Died, Cambridge, Mass., December 14 1873 Zoologist, ichthyologist. Celebrated lecturer and writer on natural history in general ment and for the melioration of mankind; a leader of men devoted to the progress of science; a patriot, friend and counsellor of Abraham Lincoln in the darker days of the Republic — in short, an exemplar for his race, a man whose purity and nobility are here fitly symbolized in enduring marble for our instruction and guidance and for the instruction and the guidance of our successors in the centuries to come. LOUIS AGASSIZ. A Letter from Edward E. Hale. Read by Addison E. Verrill, who added interesting personal reminiscences of Agassiz. Washington, D. C, December 8, 1906. I think that the first time when I ever saw Agassiz was at one of his own lectures early in his American life. This was a description of his ascent of the Jungfrau. I think it was wholly ex tempore, and, though he was new in his knowledge of Engl

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