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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 4: 1829-1830: Aet. 22-23. (search)
need it, for I am going on well with my publisher, M. Cotta, of Stuttgart. I have great hope that he will acc months by the arrival in Munich of his publisher, M. Cotta, a personal interview with whom seemed to him impo But it will not be indifferent to you to know that Cotta is disposed to accept my Fishes. He has been at Munrning soon to Munich to complete the business, since Cotta is to be there several weeks longer. Thus I shall hinally making good such large outlays. If, however, Cotta makes no other condition than that of a certain numbAfter some account of his business arrangements with Cotta, he adds: Meantime, be at ease about me. I have striection of a great Museum. When I have finished with Cotta I shall begin to pack my effects, and shall hope to my collections. My affairs are all in order with Cotta, and I have even concluded the arrangement more advar Agassiz has received several baskets of books from Cotta, among others, Schiller's and Goethe's complete work
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 6: 1832: Aet. 25. (search)
r I have had any answer. This morning, just as I was going out, a letter came from M. de Humboldt, who writes me that he is very uneasy at receiving no reply from Cotta, that he fears lest the uncertainty and anxiety of mind resulting from this may be injurious to my work, and begs me to accept the inclosed credit of a thousand frs parents was as follows:— Humboldt to Louis Agassiz. Paris, March 27, 1832. I am very uneasy, my dearest M. Agassiz, at being still without any letter from Cotta. Has he been prevented from writing by business, or illness perhaps? You know how tardy he always is about writing. Yesterday (Monday) I wrote him earnestly agay from fragments, identified some five hundred extinct species, and more than fifty extinct genera, beside reestablishing three families no longer represented. Cotta has written me in very polite terms that he could not undertake anything new at present; he would rather pay, without regard to profit, for what has been done thus
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 7: 1832-1834: Aet. 25-27. (search)
lications not succeed otherwise. As to the publication of my fishes, I can, after all, better direct the lithographing of the plates here. I have just written to Cotta concerning this, proposing also that he should advance the cost of the lithographs. I shall attend to it all carefully, and be content for the present with my smaations. With the sum of eighty louis, which is all that is subscribed for my professorship, I cannot continue them on any large scale. I await now with anxiety Cotta's answer to my last proposition; but whatever it be, I shall begin the lithographing of the plates immediately after the New Year, as they must be carried on undere of publishing the Fossil Fishes here. Certain doubts remain in my mind, however, about which, as well as about other matters, I would ask your advice. Now that Cotta is dead, I cannot wait till I have made an arrangement with his successor. I therefore allow the Fresh-Water Fishes to lie by and drive on the others. Upon caref
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 10: 1840-1842: Aet. 33-35. (search)
the first number of my physics of the world, under the title of Cosmos: in German, Ideen zur einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. It is in no sense a reproduction of the lectures I gave here. The subject is the same, but the presentation does not at all recall the form of a popular course. As a book, it has a somewhat graver and more elevated style. A spoken book is always a poor book, just as lectures read are poor however well prepared. Published courses of lectures are my detestation. Cotta is also printing a volume of mine in German, Physikalische geographische Erinnerungen. Many unpublished things concerning the volcanoes of the Andes, about currents, etc. And all this at the age when one begins to petrify! It is very rash! May this letter prove to you and to Madame Agassiz that I am petrifying only at the extremities,—the heart is still warm. Retain for me the affection which I hold so dear. A. De Humboldt. In the following winter, or, rather, in the early days of M
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 11: 1842-1843: Aet. 35-36. (search)
om acknowledging the admirable things received from you,—upon living and fossil fishes, echinoderms, and glaciers. My admiration of your boundless activity, of your beautiful intellectual life, increases with every year. This admiration for your work and your bold excursions is based upon the most careful reading of all the views and investigations, for which I have to thank you. This very week I have read with great satisfaction your truly philosophical address, and your long treatise in Cotta's fourth Jahresschrift. Even L. von Buch confessed that the first half of your treatise, the living presentation of the succession of organized beings, was full of truth, sagacity, and novelty. I in no way reproach you, my dear friend, for the urgent desire expressed in all your letters, that your oldest friends should accept your comprehensive geological view of your ice-period. It is very noble and natural to wish that what has impressed us as true should also be recognized by those w
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
at Munich, 52, 55, 67, 143; The Little Academy, 54, 67, 94, 154; Freshwater fishes of Europe, 59; desire to travel, 60, 63, 64, 68; vacation trip, 70; work on Brazilian fishes, 74; second vacation trip, 82; growing collections, 95; plans for travel with Humboldt, 99, 101, 102; doctor of philosophy, 109; at Orbe and Cudrefin, 118; death of Dr. Mayor, 118; doctor of medicine, 119, 127; new interest in medicine, 120; first work on fossil fishes, 120, 123; at Vienna, 130, 132; negotiations with Cotta, 132, 133 137; university life, 144; at home, 158; studies on cholera, 159; arrives in Paris, 162; homesickness, 163; Cuvier gives him his fossil fishes, 166; last interview with Cuvier, 167; embarrassments, 169, 177, 178; offer from Ferussac, 171; plans for disposing of collection, 176; curious dream, 181; Humboldt's gift, 183; first sight of sea, 189; plans for going to Neuchatel, 190, 193, 199; inducements to stay in Paris, 194, 197; birthday festival, 196; call to Neuchatel, 199, 201, 20