New-York tribune., 1873-12-19
HONORS TO THE DEAD.
FUNERAL OF PROF. AGASSIz

srRvtcEs IN zHE HARVARD CoLLEGE CHSPEr.--Drs-
rrxGusuED MoURNERs INTERMENT AT
MOUNT AUBURN.
lBY TELEGRAPH To rHE rRIBUNE.l
RoSrON, Dec. 1S.-SO brief, simple, and un-
the funeral services of Prof Agassz,
which were held this afternoon at Harvard College
Chanel in Cambridge. that detail Is almost excluded.
Had the friends of the decease consented have
imposing funeral, and encouraged the numerous soci-
ees and the great body OF students and citizens who
would have joined In the services, there would have
to chronicle in the pageant but the influence
OF the simple earnest life would have been less regarded
No substitution OF ritual ceremony, no addition 10
the throng no formal procession could have added to
the impressveness OF the tribute Half an hour before
Che service the chapel opened and the gal
lery and body of tho house occupied. few
the front seats reserved for the family and
friends OF the deceased The students, who behaved
most generously in giving up their places betook them
TO the galleries In the body Of the house was an
array OF culture. genius wealth and rank seldom seen
together in so small a space.
The chapel decorations which in charge Of the
students. appropriate aud beautiful The pulpit
aud galleries hung in black; front of the pulpit
was great cross Of camellas festooned with smilax
and at Its base beautiful wreath of white flowers in
bed evergreens. The back OF the chancel was also
hung n black wreaths and floral crosses festooned
with laurel The baptisma font hied with flowers,
foral basket with wreaths OF ivy and volets hanging
from tho front. The drapery Of the galleries was
alternately Ooped with callas, evergreen, and laurel
Among those present were Gov Washburn members
OF hs staff and representatives from the Executive
Council VIce-President Wilson, President Eliot, the
overseers and faculty OF Harvard University the Trus
tees Of the Museum ot Comparative Zoology the Pres-
dent council of the Boston Natural History society,"
members OF the American Academy of Arts
aud Science. four professors OF the Sheffield
Scientific school of Yale. Prof. Guyot, Drs.
Brown-seuuard and Morril wyman, Ralph Waldo Emer-
son, the Hon Josiah Quincy the Hon. Robert c. Win
throp Prof Joel Parker, exGov Clain, ChefJ Justice
Gray A. Bronson Alcott exPresident Hill, James Il.
Fields Perce Of the United states Coast Survey,
tho Rev. DIR. Neale, Asa Gray Oliver Wendell Holmes,
H. W Longfelow Burt c. Wilder, Theophilus
Parsons Julia Ward Howe. Richard II. Dana, Jr;
john Anderson OF New-York. the Hon. Emory
Washburn ex-Presdent Walker Nathaniel Thayer,
members OF the Legislature and members OF the Massa
chusotts Board of Agriculture The funeral arrange
meuts were IN charge OF Col Theodore Lyman and
Count lie Pourtales X Paine. the University organ
ist presided at the organ and the Harvard Gee Club
with choir of students, furnished the singing.
At O'Clock the remains inclosed in plain burial
csse completely covered with flowers. borne into
the chapel. followed by the immediate relatives the
organis playing voluntary the final chorus OF the
Passion" music by Bach The Rev. s. p. Peabody,
D. D. Chaplain OF the University then read the burial
service from the Kings Chapel Liturgy The choir
singing the "Pie Jesu" from the requiem of Cheru-
bins Second Mass The services closed with the hymn,
80 the grave" set TO original music by Mr. Paine.
The coffin. unattended by pallbearers was then re-
moved the organist playing the Dead March in Saul"
The relatives followed, together with President Eliot
and the Chaplain and the congregation then dispersed
A large number OF carriages followed the fearse 30
Mount Auburn where the BODY was inferred in the plot
of Mt. Cary brother of Mrs Agassz. The walls of the
grave covered with evergreens, and the ground
and adjacent graves were beaped with flowers. short
read at the grave each OF the daughters
dropped parting wreath the coffin and thus con
cuded the simple, impressive tribute 10 the dead nat
uralst The stores In Cambridge were generally closed
In tue afternoon college exercises were suspended and
the bells tolled the funeral proceeded.