A history of the United States for schools . soman Institution atWashington. That noble institution, founded by anEnglishman who had never visited America, has for itsobject the increase and diffusion of knowledge amongmen, and for half a century it has occupied a foremostposition in this country for the encouragement which it has given to originalscientific Museum of Com-parative Zoology, atHarvard University,was founded in i860by the efforts of thegreat naturalist, LouisAgassiz ; it is now oneof the largest and fin-est in the world. Byits side has grown upthe Museum of Amer-i c
A history of the United States for schools . soman Institution atWashington. That noble institution, founded by anEnglishman who had never visited America, has for itsobject the increase and diffusion of knowledge amongmen, and for half a century it has occupied a foremostposition in this country for the encouragement which it has given to originalscientific Museum of Com-parative Zoology, atHarvard University,was founded in i860by the efforts of thegreat naturalist, LouisAgassiz ; it is now oneof the largest and fin-est in the world. Byits side has grown upthe Museum of Amer-i c a n Archaeology,founded by GeorgePeabody, extremelyrich and instructive in its collections. In ProfessorMarshs collection of fossils at .Yale University one mayread chapters of our earths history that are nowhereelse so clearly exhibited. The Field Museum, at Chi- 1 The three largest libraries in the world are the National, in Paris,with 2,600,000 vols.; the British Museum, in London, 1,700,000 ; the Im-perial, in St. Petersburg, 1,100, AGASSIZ. § 178. SOME FEATURES OF PROGRESS. 497 cago, founded in 1893, is already remarkable for manyof its collections. We should not fail to mention thesuperb Botanical Gardens connected with the Washing-ton University at St. Louis; as also the AstronomicalObservatories at Harvard University, at Wash- observ-ington, Alleghany, Albany, Chicago, and the Lick Observatory, near San Jose, California. Noneof these institutions is yet seventy years old ; yet muchimportant original work has been done in them. Untilabout 1850 all our telescopes were made in Europe; by1875 it could be said that American opticians makethe best telescopes in the world, and the most eminentname connected with this noble advancement is that ofAlvan Clark. Americans have always done excellent work in as-tronomy, from the days of David Rittenhouse, Astron-who was a friend of George Washington, to °^the two Bonds in the middle of the present century, a
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