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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 7: 1832-1834: Aet. 25-27. (search)
footing. Since I wrote you, some things have become more clear to me, as, for instance, my purpose 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 advic could your gift have given me greater pleasure. Generous friends have helped me to bring out the first number of my Fossil Fishes; the plates of the second are finished, but I was greatly embarrassed to know how to print a sufficient number of copies, but I am sometimes obliged to work more than I well can, or ought in reason to do. . . . The second number of my Fossil Fishes contains the beginning of the anatomy of the fishes, but only such portions as are to be found in the fossil state. ral, would be fitting. Will you have the kindness to deliver it for me to Mr. Murchison? The first number of the Fossil Fishes had already appeared, and had been greeted with enthusiasm by scientific men. Elie de Beaumont writes Agassiz in June
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 7: 1834-1837: Aet. 27-30. (search)
u may find it, perhaps, thanks to our stoves. But as we shall still have plenty of ice in the streets, your glacial opinions will not find a market at that season. I should like to present you with a memoir or monograph of mine, just published, on Spirifer and Orthis, but I will take good care to let no one pay postage on a work which, by its nature, can have but a very limited interest. . . . I will await your arrival to give you these descriptions. I am expecting the numbers of your Fossil Fishes, which have not yet come. Humboldt often speaks of them to me. Ah! how much I prefer you in a field which is wholly your own than in one where you break in upon the measured and cautious tread, introduced by Saussure in geology. You, too, will reconsider all this, and will yet treat the views of Saussure and Escher with more respect. Everything here turns to infusoria. Ehrenberg has just discovered that an apparently sandy deposit, twenty feet in thickness, under the Luneburgerheyd
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 9: 1837-1839: Aet. 30-32. (search)
in engraving objects of natural history, and was specially versed in the recently invented art of chromatic lithography. Agassiz was now driving all his steeds abreast. Beside his duties as professor, he was printing at the same time his Fossil Fishes, his Fresh-Water Fishes, and his investigations on fossil Echinoderms and Mollusks,—the illustrations for all these various works being under his daily supervision. The execution of these plates, under M. Nicolet's care, was admirable for thto do thus far, being unable to bring it myself, as I had hoped. You would oblige me greatly if you would give a look at these different works, which may, I hope, have various claims on your interest. First, there is the tenth number of the Fossil Fishes, though the whole supply of publisher's copies will only be sent a few weeks later. Then there are the seven first plates of my sea-urchins, engraved with much care and with many details. A third series of plates relates to critical studies
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 11: 1842-1843: Aet. 35-36. (search)
ast of the plates, with a general summary of the species of that formation. I aim to finish the work with such care that it shall mark a sensible advance in ichthyology. I hope it will satisfy you. . . . You ask me how I intend to finish my Fossil Fishes? As follows: As soon as the number on the species of the Old Red is finished, I shall complete the general outline of the work as I did with volume 4, in order that the arrangement and character of all the families in the four orders may beluding to the blue and white bands in the ice of which I spoke to you last year; this is a quite distinct phenomenon. I wish I could accept your kind invitation, but until I have gone to the bottom of the glacier question and terminated my Fossil Fishes, I do not venture to move. It is no light task to finish all this before our long journey, to which I look forward, as it draws nearer, with a constantly increasing interest. I am very sorry not to join you at Florence. It would have been
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 12: 1843-1846: Aet. 36-39. (search)
rominence here would be to deprive his scientific career of its true basis. Belief in a Creator was the keynote of his study of nature. In summing up the comprehensive results of Agassiz's paleontological researches, and especially of his Fossil Fishes, Arnold Guyot says: See Biographical Memoir of Louis Agassiz, p. 28.— Whatever be the opinions which many may entertain as to the interpretation of some of these generalizations, the vast importance of these results of Agassiz's studies nd knew so well how to encourage and interest them in their studies. Pausing at Carlsruhe on his journey, he proceeded thence to Paris, where he was welcomed with the greatest cordiality by scientific men. In recognition of his work on the Fossil Fishes the Monthyon Prize of Physiology was awarded him by the Academy. He felt this distinction the more because the bearing of such investigations upon experimental physiology had never before been pointed out, and it showed that he had succeeded
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 17: 1852-1855: Aet. 45-48. (search)
cepted, on one or other of these subjects, illustrated by specimens, models, maps, and drawings. In order not to interrupt the course of the narrative, the history of this undertaking in its sequence and general bearing on his life and work may be completed here in a few words. This school secured to him many happy and comparatively tranquil years. It enabled him to meet both domestic and scientific expenses, and to pay the heavy debt he had brought from Europe as the penalty of his Fossil Fishes and his investigations on the glaciers. When the school closed after eight years he was again a free man. With an increased salary from the college, and with such provision for the Museum (thanks to the generosity of the State and of individuals) as rendered it in a great degree independent, he was never again involved in the pecuniary anxieties of his earlier career. The occupation of teaching was so congenial to him that his part in the instruction of the school did not at any time
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
n, 216, 217, 222; threatened blindness, 218; publishing Fossil Fishes, 220, 238; marriage, 230; growing reputations 230; inv and development, 239, 245; difficulties in the work on Fossil Fishes, 246, 257; first visit to England, 248; material for FoFossil Fishes, 250; return to Neuchatel, 251; first relations with New England, 252; second visit to England, 259; various work; first glacial work, 260; sale of original drawings of Fossil Fishes, 262; on the Jura, 262; glacial theory announced, 263; cations, 333; unity in work, 336; on glaciers, 337-347; Fossil Fishes, 348; gifts from the king of Prussia, 349, 379; plans fy of fossil fishes, 359; critical point, 361; publishes Fossil Fishes, 366; not an evolutionist, 371; belief in a Creator, 37Red, 366; of Sheppy, 374, 376; of Connecticut, 415. Fishes, Fossil, Recherches surles poissons fossiles, 92, 120, 123, 16e, 306. Silliman, Benjamin, announces subscribers to Fossil Fishes, 252; visit to, 408, 413. Siphonia, 709. Smithson