Excerpt from Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz

After it became apparent that it would be necessary to cast this book in its present form, I would gladly have handed the material to a more experienced bio grapher. Since no suitable person was available, it has fallen to me to complete the work, for lack of a fitting Boswell.

I wish to take this opportunity of most cordially thanking the many individuals who have kindly allowed me to examine my father's letters and have assisted in numerous other ways. I trust that they will consider their number a sufficient excuse for not mentioning them personally.

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