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THE sad intelligence received in London this morning of the death of Prof. Agassiz adds another illustrious name to the long roll of victims to the insidious demon, “over-work.” May I ask you to give room in your next issue to the following passage from a letter (probably one of the last he penned) received from Prof. Agassiz only last week, which may be interesting to his many sorrowing friends on this side the Atlantic, as attesting indirectly to the cause of his death, viz., excess of mental and physical exertion.
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GREY EGERTON, P. Prof. Agassiz. Nature 9, 121 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/009121a0
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