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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 15: 1847-1850: Aet. 40-43. (search)
the service of the Prussian king, a scientific school was organized at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in direct connection with Harvard University. This school, known as the Lawrence Scientific School, owed its existence to the generosity of Abbott Lawrence, formerly United States Minister at the Court of St. James. He immediately offered the chair of Natural History (Zoology and Geology) to Agassiz, with a salary of fifteen hundred dollars, guaranteed by Mr. Lawrence himself, until such time Mr. Lawrence himself, until such time as the fees of the students should be worth three thousand dollars to their professor. This time never came. Agassiz's lectures, with the exception of the more technical ones addressed to small classes, were always fully attended, but special students were naturally very few in a department of pure science, and their fees never raised the salary of the professor perceptibly. This was, however, counterbalanced in some degree by the clause in his contract which allowed him entire freedom for le
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
N. Y., 672. J. Jackson, C. T., 437. Johnson, P. C., 692, 750. K. Kentucky, fishes of, 523. Kobell, 150, 643. Koch, the botanist, 72.. L. Labyrinthodon, 360. Lackawanna cove, 745. Lake Superior, excursion to, 463; glacial phenomena, 464; local geology, 465; fauna, 465. Lake Superior, Narrative of, 466. Lakes in New York, origin of, 663. Lausanne, Agassiz at the college of, 15. Lausanne, invitation to, 280. Lava bed in Albemarle island, 761. Lawrence, Abbott, 457. Lawrence, Scientific school established, 457; Agassiz made professor, 457. Lea, Isaac, collection of shells, 418, 436. Leconte, 425, 436. Lepidosteus, 465. Lesquereux, L., 679. Letters: Agassiz to his brother Auguste, 46, 57, 75, 109, 120, 126. to his father, 19, 22, 31, 66, 71, 97, 114, 130, 180. to his father and mother, 82, 111, 136, 184. to his mother, 62, 127, 160, 175, 409, 624, 639. to his sister Cecile, 55, 79. to his sister Olympe, 163. to his old pupi