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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 3: 1828-1829: Aet. 21-22. (search)
the term. From seven to eight we do as we like, including breakfast. Under Agassiz's new style of housekeeping the coffee is made in a machine which is devoted during the day to the soaking of all sorts of creatures for skeletons, and in the evening again to the brewing of our tea. At eight o'clock comes the clinical lecture of Ringseis. As Ringseis is introducing an entirely new medical system, this is not wholly without general physiological and philosophical interest. At ten o'clock Stahl lectures, five times a week, on mechanics as preliminary to physics. These and also the succeeding lectures, given only twice a week on the special natural history of amphibians by Wagler, we all attend together. From twelve to one o'clock we have nothing settled as yet, but we mean to take the lectures of Dollinger, in single chapters, as, for instance, when he comes to the organs of the senses. At one o'clock we go to dinner, for which we have at last found a comfortable and regular pla
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 9: 1837-1839: Aet. 30-32. (search)
s. His method of studying this class was too original and too characteristic to be passed by without notice The science of conchology had heretofore been based almost wholly upon the study of the empty shells. To Agassiz this seemed superficial. Longing to know more of the relation between the animal and its outer covering, he bethought himself that the inner moulding of the shell would give at least the form of its old inhabitant. For the practical work he engaged an admirable moulder, M. Stahl, who continued to be one of his staff at the lithographic establishment until he became permanently employed at the Jardin des Plantes. With his help and that of M. Henri Ladame, professor of physics and chemistry at Neuchatel, who prepared the delicate metal alloys in which the first mould was taken, Agassiz obtained casts in which the form of the animals belonging to the shells was perfectly reproduced. This method has since passed into universal use. By its aid he obtained a new means
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
Sholl Bay, 734, 735; moraine at, 735. Shore level, change of, 673. Siebold, Letter of, about Agassiz at Munich, 126. Siedelhorn, ascent of the, 306. Silliman, Benjamin, announces subscribers to Fossil Fishes, 252; visit to, 408, 413. Siphonia, 709. Smithsonian Institution, lectures at, 506; Agassiz becomes regent of, 506. Smythe's Channel, 734, 741. Snell, G., 561. Snowy Glacier, 741. Snowy Range, 741. Sonrel, 443. Spain, plan for collecting in, 585. Spatangus, 704. Spix, 79; his Brazilian Fishes, 80. Sponge, chemidium-like, 704. Sponges, deep sea, 707. Stahl, 90, 283. Starke, 44. Steindachner, F., 679, 691, 753. Steudel, the botanist, 49. Stimpson, W., 494. Strahleck, ascent of the, 302. Studer, 293, 295. Stuttgart, Museum at, 47. Sullivan's Island, 492. Summer School of Natural History, plan for, 766. Sumner, Charles, 634. T. Tagus Sound, 760. Talcahuana, 750. Tarn Bay, 744. Zzz rest of the index?