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Show A CHEAT NATURALIST. .klfb ol Alalamtar AiaMll, Oppaatat I ftolnllun Idaa. Alexander Agasslz, naturalist, was born In Switzerland In 1835. lie acquired ac-quired considerable learning before coming to the United States In 1I). Graduated from Harvard In 1SS5, on of the brilliant cluster of that decade, be taught for a time In a young ladles' school which his father directed. Ho studied t-hemlstry and engineering and went to California In U&J as Militant on the coiat survey. Iteturnlng In 1SC0, he became assistant In tho museum muse-um ot zoology at Cambridge, whoso department of soology and.jcoJogy4Jai tha.tawrenc Bctintine school, had' been created to honor his father. Most emlent of American scientists of but time. Alexander Aga,lz roso to be tlw best authority nn certain forma of marine life. A copious and absorbing writer, he stood until his deth first of purely scientific opponent of evolis tlon ot species. Ills writings on m-bryology m-bryology Include Investigations showing show-ing that the ovum ot any specie U normally developed produce th sama species He carried on the "Natural History of the United States" begun by hla father. All the Kuropean KlentlB societies honored tbemselve by placing plac-ing bis name In th list of corresponding correspond-ing members. Invariably as as American, |