MAJOR HIGGINSON'S ADDRESS

Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 spoke most interestingly last evening in the Union on "Professor Alexander Agassiz." The speaker was introduced by President Lowell, who paid a brief tribute to the memory of Professor Agassiz.

Major Higginson began his address with a short account of Professor Agassiz's life, especially that part relating to his marine work and to the upbuilding of the Calumet and Hecla mine, a feat he accomplished only after hard and protracted labor. "After 1873, he spent several months of each winter in some foreign country to make researches, and it was during these times that he did so much sea-dredging." Mr. Agassiz's scientific writings number more than two hundred titles, including volumes and short papers.

Following this, Major Higginson spoke briefly on Professor Agassiz's accomplishments: "His scientific career, his studies in science and his never-ending researches for fresh knowledge, which he could use so well because of his already acquired knowledge, his memories and reports were the chief objects of his life. His training and his unusual memory enabled him to assimilate all sorts of knowledge. When he took up any new subject, he knew just how to get at it and, therefore, he easily covered a very wide ground. It seemed as if he knew something about everything, about every place, and about very many men."