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HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
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CAMBRIDGE,
January 31, 1888.

SIR:

It is with great regret that I inform you of the death of
ASA GRAY,
Fisher Professor of Natural History and Director of the Herbarium, which occured on the 30th instant in the seventy-eighth year of his age.

The funeral services will take place at Appleton Chapel, on Thursday, February 2d, at noon.

Your obedient servant,

CHARLES W. ELIOT.