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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 1 : 1807 -1827 : to Aet. 20 . (search)
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 5 : 1830 -1832 : Aet. 23 -25 . (search)
Chapter 5: 1830-1832: Aet. 23-25.
Year at home.
leaves home for Paris.
delays on the road.
cholera.
arrival in Paris.
first visit to Cuvier.
Cuvier's kindness.
his death.
poverty in Paris.
home letters concerning embarrassments and about his work.
singular dream.
On the 4th of December, 1830, Agassiz left Munich, in company with Mr. Dinkel, and after a short stay at St. Gallen and Zurich, spent in looking up fossil fishes and making drawings of them, they reached Concise on the 30th of the same month.
Anxiously as his return was awaited at home, we have seen that his father was not without apprehension lest the presence of the naturalist, with artist, specimens, and apparatus, should be an inconvenience in the quiet parsonage.
But every obstacle yielded to the joy of reunion, and Agassiz was soon established with his painter, his fossils, and all his scientific outfit, under the paternal roof.
Thus quietly engaged in his ichthyological studies, carrying on
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 6 : 1832 : Aet. 25 . (search)
Chapter 6: 1832: Aet. 25.
Unexpected relief from difficulties.
correspondence with Humboldt.
excursion to the Coast of Normandy.
first sight of the sea.
correspondence concerning professorship at Neuchatel.
birthday Fete.
invitation to chair of natural History at Nechatel.
acceptance.
letter to Humboldt.
Agassiz was not called upon to make the sacrifice of giving up his artist and leaving Paris, although he was, or at least thought himself, prepared for it. The darkest hour is before the dawn, and the letter next given announces an unexpected relief from pressing distress and anxiety.
To his father and mother. Paris, March, 1832.
. . . I am still so agitated and so surprised at what has just happened that I scarcely believe what my eyes tell me.
I mentioned in a postscript to my last letter that I had called yesterday on M. de Humboldt, whom I had not seen for a long time, in order to speak to him concerning Auguste's affair, but that I did not find hi
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 7 : 1832 -1834 : Aet. 25 -27 . (search)
Chapter 7: 1832-1834: Aet. 25-27.
Enters upon his professorship at Neuchatel.
first lecture.
success as a teacher.
love of teaching.
influence upon the scientific life of Neuchatel.
proposal from University of Heidelberg.
proposal declined.
threatened blindness.
correspondence with Humboldt.
marriage.
invitation from Charpentier.
invitation to visit England.
Wollaston prize.
first number of Poissons Fossiles.
review of the work.
The following autumn Agassiz assumed the duties of his professorship at Neuchatel.
His opening lecture Upon the Relations between the different branches of Natural History and the then prevailing tendencies of all the Sciences was given on the 12th of November, 1832, at the Hotel de Ville.
Judged by the impression made upon the listeners as recorded at the time, this introductory discourse must have been characterized by the same broad spirit of generalization which marked Agassiz's later teaching.
Facts in his hands fell into th
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 10 : 1840 -1842 : Aet. 33 -35 . (search)