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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 13: 1846: Aet. 39. (search)
hich, ever since its foundation, European scientific researches have reached America. His son is now professor of chemistry at Yale. One of his sons-in-law, Mr. Shepard, is also chemical professor in the University of South Carolina. Another, Mr. Dana, still a very young man, strikes me as likely to be the most distinguished naturalist of the United States. He was a member of the expedition around the world under the command of Captain Wilkes, and has just published a magnificent volume contny European expedition has done more or better; and in some departments, in that of the Crustacea, for example, the collection at Washington surpasses in beauty and number of specimens all that I have seen. It is especially to Dr. Pickering and Mr. Dana that these collections are due. As the expedition did not penetrate to the interior of the continents in tropical regions, the collections of birds and mammals, which fell to the charge of Mr. Peale, are less considerable. Mr. Gray tells me, ho
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 14: 1846-1847: Aet. 39-40. (search)
ciers. correspondence with scientific friends in Europe. house in East Boston. household and housekeeping. illness. letter to Elie de Beaumont. letter to James D. Dana. The course at the Lowell Institute was immediately followed by one upon glaciers, the success of which was guaranteed by private subscription,—an unnecessat? They need only confidence, and some special recognition from Europe would tend to give them this. . . . Among the zoologists of this country I would place Mr. Dana at the head. He is still very young, fertile in ideas, rich in facts, equally able as geologist and mineralogist. When his work on corals is completed, you canon was to him. The English is still a little foreign. He was not yet quite at home in the language which he afterward wrote and spoke with such fluency. To James D. Dana. East Boston, September, 1847. . . . What have you thought of me all this time, not having written a single line neither to you nor to Professor Silliman a
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 16: 1850-1852: Aet. 43-45. (search)
ir Charles Lyell. Cambridge, April 26, 1851. . . .I have spent a large part of the winter in Florida, with a view of studying the coral reefs. I have found that they constitute a new class of reefs, distinct from those described by Darwin and Dana under the name of fringing reefs, barrier reefs, and atolls. I have lately read a paper upon that subject before the American Academy, which I shall send you as soon as it is printed. The case is this. There are several concentric reefs separahe coast of New England and of the Florida reefs; so that he had now a basis for comparison of the fauna scattered along the whole Atlantic coast of the United States. The following letter gives some idea of his work at this time. To Professor James D. Dana. Charleston, January 26, 1852. my dear friend,—You should at least know that I think of you often on these shores. And how could I do otherwise when I daily find new small crustacea, which remind me of the important work you are now
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 17: 1852-1855: Aet. 45-48. (search)
o Cambridge. anxiety about collections. purchase of collections. second winter in Charleston. Illness. letter to James D. Dana concerning geographical distribution and geological succession of animals. resignation of Charleston professorship. propositions from Zurich. letter to Oswald Heer. decision to remain in Cambridge. letters to James D. Dana, S. S. Haldeman, and others respecting collections illustrative of the distribution of fishes, shells, etc., in our rivers. establishmentelastic mind was at once ready for work, as may be seen by the following extract from one of his first letters. To James D. Dana. Sullivan's Island, Charleston, February 16, 1853. . . . It seems, indeed, to me as if in the study of the geograabove-mentioned circular was issued,will give an idea of the way in which Agassiz laid out such investigations. To James D. Dana. Cambridge, July 8, 1853. . . . I have been lately devising some method of learning how far animals are truly aut
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 18: 1855-1860: Aet. 48-53. (search)
mbers: At one end of the table sat Longfellow, florid, quiet, benignant, soft-voiced, a most agreeable rather than a brilliant talker, but a man upon whom it was always pleasant to look,—whose silence was better than many another man's conversation. At the other end sat Agassiz, robust, sanguine, animated, full of talk, boy-like in his laughter. The stranger who should have asked who were the men ranged along the sides of the table would have heard in answer the names of Hawthorne, Motley, Dana, Lowell, Whipple, Peirce, the distinguished mathematician, Judge Hoar, eminent at the bar and in the cabinet, Dwight, the leading musical critic of Boston for a whole generation, Sumner, the academic champion of freedom, Andrew, the great War Governor of Massachusetts, Dr. Howe, the philanthropist, William Hunt, the painter, with others not unworthy of such company. We may complete the list and add the name of Holmes himself, to whose presence the club owed so much of its wit and wisdom. In
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 21: 1865-1868: Aet. 58-61. (search)
idered as a reconnaissance, in view of the extent and importance of the work. I would, therefore, recommend you to organize a party specially detailed to carry on these investigations in connection with, and by the side of, the regular geodetic and hydrographic survey. Here, also, would geological knowledge be of great advantage to the explorer. In confirmation of my recommendation I need only remind you of a striking fact in the history of our science. More than thirty years ago, before Dana and Darwin had published their beautiful investigations upon the coral reefs, a pupil of mine, the late Armand Gressly, had traced the structure and mode of growth of coral reefs and atolls in the Jura mountains, thus anticipating, by a geological investigation, results afterward obtained by dredging in the ocean. The structure of the reefs of our shores is, therefore, more likely to be fully understood by one who is entirely familiar with zoology and geology than by a surveyor who has no fa
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
3, 756. Cuvier, Georges, dedication to, 75; notes on Spix fishes, 108; reception of Agassiz, 164; gives material for fossil fishes, 166; last words, 168. Cyclopoma spinosum, curious dream about, 181. Cyprinus uranoscopus, 76. D. Dana, J. D., 414, 421, 436. Darwin, C., accepts glacier theory, 342; in Lake Superior, 469; on Massachusetts cirrepedia, 469; estimation of Darwinism, 647; of Agassiz, 666. Davis, Admiral, 454, 458. Deep-sea dredgings, 671, 672, 690-704, 715. Deepto his sister Cecile, 55, 79. to his sister Olympe, 163. to his old pupils, 532. to Elie de Beaumont, 446. to Bonaparte, Prince of Ca-nino, 356, 362, 377, 378. to A. Braun, 33, 36, 41, 118. to Dr. Buckland, 234. to T. G. Cary, 582. to James D. Dana, 451, 493, 509, 519. to L. Coulon, 190, 197. to Decaisne, 432. to A. de la Rive, 663. to Sir P. Egerton, 284, 294, 811, 347, 359, 374, 577, 646; Agassiz to R. W. Emerson, 619. to Chancellor Favargez, 430. to S. S. Haldeman, 520. to
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, chapter 28 (search)
pleasure from looking at or studying the life of the sea. Professor Alexander Agassiz gives the results of his own extended observations and profound researches, relating to the structure, habits, growth, development from the embryo, and other characteristics of New England polyps, jelly-fishes or medusae, and star-fishes, illustrating his descriptions with numerous artistic figures; and Mrs. Agassiz adds to the volume the charm of her graceful pen. Seaside Studies in Natural History is a work for the learned as well as unlearned, fitted to give all delight and instruction. Professor James D. Dana, In American Journal of science. Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence. Edited by Elizabeth C. Agassiz. With Portraits and Illustrations. 2 vols. crown 8vo. $4.00. This volume gives a full account of Professor Agassiz, his work and writings, and also contains copious selections from his correspondence. It is the most extended biography of him which has ever been published.