OBITUARY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10416, 31 March 1910, Page 4

OBITUARY.

DR AGASSIZ. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press' Association.) Received March 30, at lO.ip p.m. London, March 30. Obituary—Dr Alexander Agassiz, scientist. [Agassiz (Alexander), American naturalist, born in Neuchatel, Switzerland, 17th December, 1535. He was the only son of Louis Agassiz by .his first wife, and he followed his father to the United States in 1849. His early education was received abroad, and after his arrival in that country he prepared for Harvard, graduating in 1855. Then he studied engineering at the Lawrence Scientific School, where'in 1557 he obtained the degree of 8.5., after -which lie took a further course in the chemical department, and also taught m his father's school for young ladies. In 1559 lie went to California as an assistant on the coast survey, and was engaged on the north-west border. He collected specimens for the museum at 'Cambridge, and also visited the principal mines. . During the summer of 1873 ho acted as director of the Anderson School of Natural History, and m 1875 he visited the'western coast of South America, examining tho copper mines of Peru and Chili, and making un extended survey of Lake N Titicaca and collecting for tho Pea body Museum a ' great number of Peruvian antiquities. He afterwards went to Scotland to assist Sir Wyviilp Thompson in arranging the collection made during tho exploring expedition of the Challeuger, part of which he took back to America. ' lie wrote one of the. final reports on the zoology of ,the expedition, that on Echini". Prom 1876 to 1881 his winters were spent in deep-sea dredging expeditions in connection with the, coast sur'vey,. the steamer Blake having been placed at his disposal for this purpose. Mr Agassiz was a Fellow of Harvard College till 1885, and has served as an overseer. He was.a..member of the National Academy of: Sciences, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, being, its vice-president during the Boston meeting of 1880, of the American Academy of Sciences, and of numerous other scientific societies of England and Europe, it has been said that he was "the best authority in the. world on certain forms of marine life."]