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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 7: 1834-1837: Aet. 27-30. (search)
still appear to you as a ghost, having under my arm the pages you have failed to interpolate and the volume of that eternal America which I owe to the public. I close with a touch of fun, in order that my letter may seem a little less like preaching. A thousand affectionate remembrances. No more ice, not much of echinoderms, plenty of fish, recall of ambassadors in partibus, and great severity toward the book-sellers, an infernal race, two or three of whom have been killed under me. A. De Humboldt. I sigh to think of the trouble my horrible writing will give you. A letter of about the same date from Von Buch shows that, however he might storm at Agassiz's heterodox geology, he was in full sympathy with his work in general. Leopold Von Buch to Louis Agassiz. December 22, 1837. . . . Pray reinstate me in the good graces of my unknown benefactor among you. By a great mistake the reports of the Society forwarded to me from Neuchatel have been sent back. As it is we
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 10: 1840-1842: Aet. 33-35. (search)
ns in great Britain. Roads of Glen Roy. views of English naturalists concerning Agassiz's glacial theory. letter from Humboldt. winter visit to glacier. summer of 1841 on the glacier. descent into the glacier. ascent of the Jungfrau. In thellen, a list of which I will forward to you. . . . We append here, a little out of the regular course, a letter from Humboldt, which shows that he too was beginning to look more leniently upon Agassiz's glacial conclusions. Humboldt to Louis AHumboldt to Louis Agassiz. Berlin, August 15, 1840. I am the most guilty of mortals, my dear friend. There are not three persons in the world whose remembrance and affection I value more than yours, or for whom I have a warmer love and admiration, and yet I allow 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 March, 1841, Agassiz visited, in company with M. Deso
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 11: 1842-1843: Aet. 35-36. (search)
ographia Zoologiae et Geologiae. correspondence with English naturalists. correspondence with Humboldt. glacial campaign of 1842. correspondence with Prince de Canino concerning journey to United se, doubt Agassiz and Buckland) by glaciers also. It continued to be a grief to Agassiz that Humboldt, the oldest of all his scientific friends, and the one whose opinion he most reverenced, still Agassiz did not willingly renounce the hope of making him a convert. Agassiz's own letters to Humboldt are missing from this time onward. Overwhelmed with occupation, and more at his ease in his remen, he had ceased to make the rough drafts in which his earlier correspondence is recorded. Humboldt to Agassiz. Berlin, March 2, 1842. . . . When one has been so long separated, even accident knowledge of organized beings. . . With old attachment and the warmest friendship, your A. De Humboldt. In the same strain is this extract from another letter of Humboldt's, written two or t