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“ Professor Agassiz served as an overseer of Harvard university, and was a fellow until 1885. His society membership embraced the American association for the advancement of science, the National academy of science and the American academy of arts and sciences, of which last he was president in 1898. He was made an officer of the Legion of Honor of France in 1896. In 1898 he gave to Harvard university his valuable West Indian, Central and South American zoölogical collections. On May 7, 1902, he was appointed the director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. ”

“ AGASSIZ, Alexander Emmanuel Rudolph, zoölogist, was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland, Dec. 17, 1835, son of Louis and Cecile (Braun) Agassiz. He came to the United States with his father when he was eleven years of age, and, completing his academical course, entered Harvard and was graduated in 1855. He studied engineering in the Lawrence scientific school, and after taking his degree pursued a post-graduate course in chemistry, at the same time teaching that science in a young ladies' seminary conducted by his father. ”

“ The same year he became interested in coal mining in Pennsylvania, and in 1866 made some investigations in the copper mines of Lake Superior, and became president of the Calumet and Hecla mining company, which corporation paid to its stockholders over $50,000,000 in dividends prior to 1895. ”