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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 9 : 1837 -1839 : Aet. 30 -32 . (search)
Chapter 9: 1837-1839: Aet. 30-32.
Invitation to Professorships at Geneva and Lausanne.– death of his father.
establishment of lithographic Press at Neuchatel.
researches upon structure of Mollusks.
internal casts of shells.
glacial explorations.
views of Buckland.
relations with Arnold Guyot.
their work together in the Alps.
letter to Sir Philip Egerton concerning glacial work.
summer of 1839.
publication of Etudes sur les glaciers.
Although Agassiz's daring treatment of the glacial phenomena had excited much opposition and angry comment, it had also made a powerful impression by its eloquence and originality.
To this may be partl ted by Professor Guyot, in preparation for his part of the publication, are now deposited in the College of New Jersey, at Princeton.
In the following summer of 1839 Agassiz took the chain of Monte Rosa and Matterhorn as the field of a larger and more systematic observation.
On this occasion, the usual party consisting of Agas