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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 1: 1807-1827: to Aet. 20. (search)
d afterward serve my apprenticeship in commerce at Neuchatel for a year and a half. Then I should like to passhe business house of his uncle, Francois Mayor, at Neuchatel. He begged for a farther delay, to be spent in twr and mother had been settled since 1821. Between Neuchatel and Orbe they were overtaken by a traveling carriaothers separated, Auguste returning from Zurich to Neuchatel, where he entered into business. It chanced, howe of this burden by an arrangement with my uncle at Neuchatel. I am confident that when I have finished my studow; also whether Schimper wishes for any. . . . At Neuchatel I had the good fortune to find at least thirty spe My brother writes me that my box has arrived in Neuchatel. As I am going there goon I will take it then. I rejoice in the thought of being in Neuchatel, partly on account of my brother, Arnold (Guyot), and other frien own observations upon them. Agassiz to Braun. Neuchatel, June 20, 1827. . . Now you shall hear what I k
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 2: 1827-1828: Aet. 20-21. (search)
ns the same value in my eyes. . . . To his brother Auguste. Munich, December 26, 1827. . . . After my long fast from news of you, your letter made me very happy. I was dull besides, and needed something to cheer me. . . . Since my talk about natural history does not bore you, I want to tell you various other things about it, and also to ask you to do me a favor. I have stuffed a superb otter lately; next week I shall receive a beaver, and I have exchanged all my little toads from Neuchatel for reptiles from Brazil and Java. One of our professors here, who is publishing a natural history of reptiles, will introduce in his work my description of that species, and my observations upon it. He has already had lithographed those drawings of eggs that Cecile made for me, as well as the colored drawings made for me by Braun's sister when I was at Carlsruhe. My collection of fishes is also much increased, but I have no duplicates left of the species I brought with me. I have exchang
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 3: 1828-1829: Aet. 21-22. (search)
myself in the scientific world than by sending Cuvier my fishes with the observations I have made on their natural history. To these I should like to add such rare Swiss species as you can procure for me. So do not fail. From his brother. Neuchatel, August 25, 1828. . . . I received in good time, and with infinite delight, your pleasant letter of July 27th. Its mysteries have however been unveiled by Dr. Schinz, who came to the meeting of the Natural History Society in Lausanne, whereof natural history would not hesitate to take them at that price. You will therefore easily understand how anxious I am to keep them intact. Can you not find me a place where they might be spread out? I have thought that perhaps my uncle in Neuchatel would have the kindness to let some large shelves be put up in the little upper room of his house in Cudrefin, where, far from being an annoyance or causing any smell, my collection, if placed in a case under glass, or disposed in some other su
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 4: 1829-1830: Aet. 22-23. (search)
wo works which should surely be worth a thousand louis to me. This is a low estimate, for even ephemeral pieces and literary ventures are paid at this price. You can easily make the calculation. They allow three louis for each plate with the accompanying text; my fossils will have about two hundred plates, and my fresh-water fishes about one hundred and fifty. This seems to me plausible. . . . . This letter evidently made a favorable impression on the business heads of the family at Neuchatel, for it is forwarded to his parents, with these words from his brother on the last sheet: I hasten, dear father, to send you this excellent letter from my brother, which has just reached me. They have read it here with interest, and Uncle Francois Mayor, especially, sees both stability and a sound basis in his projects and enterprises. There is something touching and almost amusing in Agassiz's efforts to give a prudential aspect to his large scientific schemes. He was perfectly since
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 5: 1830-1832: Aet. 23-25. (search)
o facilitate, as far as we can, any arrangements for your convenience. Here you can live in perfect tranquillity and without expense. There are two other subjects which I want to discuss with you, though perhaps I shall not make myself so easily understood. You have seen the handsome public building in process of construction at Nechatel. It will be finished this year, and I am told that the Museum will be placed there. I believe the collections are very incomplete, and the city of Neuchatel is rich enough to expend something in filling the blanks. It has occurred to me, my dear, that this would be an excellent opportunity for disposing of your alcoholic specimens. They form, at present, a capital yielding no interest, requiring care, and to be enjoyed only at the cost of endless outlay in glass jars, alcohol, and transportation, to say nothing of the rent of a room in which to keep them. All this, beside attracting many visitors, is too heavy a burden for you, from which y
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 6: 1832: Aet. 25. (search)
t of the sea. correspondence concerning professorship at Neuchatel. birthday Fete. invitation to chair of natural History on might, therefore, fill the gaps in that of the city of Neuchatel, and make the latter more than adequate for the illustratcourse to your approval, had it not been that here, as in Neuchatel, a prompt answer was urged. Although guided rather by inions do not confuse the judgment. This says to me, Go to Neuchatel; do not stay in Paris. But I speak in riddles; I must exnally, it seems to me that in a quiet retired place like Neuchatel, whatever may be growing up within me will have a more iny to transfer myself to Germany, whereas I could consider Neuchatel as a provisional position from which I might be called toween Agassiz and M. Coulon regarding the professorship at Neuchatel was now rapidly bringing the matter to a happy conclusionr at once, and have told you how smoothly all has gone at Neuchatel. Your letters to M. de Coulon and to General von Pfuel h
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 7: 1832-1834: Aet. 25-27. (search)
7. Enters upon his professorship at Neuchatel. first lecture. success as a teacher. lovr developed that in which he believed. In Neuchatel the presence of the young professor was feltng walks in the country over the hills about Neuchatel, and especially to Chaumont, the mountain whasure at the warm welcome extended to him in Neuchatel. Agassiz to Humboldt. December, 1832. would induce me to remain for the present in Neuchatel, and I think you will approve them. First, be a double conquest for the principality of Neuchatel. I have requested a report from the Councilind by the hope of selling his collection at Neuchatel, and thus freeing himself from a heavy burderchase of my collection for the Gymnasium in Neuchatel. Did I know how to write, etc. The rest of Ankauf meiner Sammlung fur das Gymnasium in Neuchatel tief gerulhrt allerunterthanigst zu Fussen zthe publishers. . . . Agassiz to Lyell. Neuchatel, March 25, 1834. . . .You cannot imagine [9 more...]
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 7: 1834-1837: Aet. 27-30. (search)
a backward look, he left England in October, and returned to his lectures in Neuchatel, taking with him such specimens as were indispensable to the progress of his nd tour among the other fossil fishes of England and Ireland, and returned to Neuchatel, leaving his two artists in London with their hands more than full. While ss of Echinodermata appeared in the Memoirs of the Natural History Society of Neuchatel, as well as his paper on the fossil Echini belonging to the Neocomien group oly stirred by the glacial phenomena. In the winter of 1837, on his return to Neuchatel, he investigated anew the slopes of the Jura, and found that the facts there ding itself in his fertile brain. When the Helvetic Association assembled at Neuchatel in the following summer, the young president, from whom the members had expecamong you. By a great mistake the reports of the Society forwarded to me from Neuchatel have been sent back. As it is well known at the post-office that I do not ke
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 9: 1837-1839: Aet. 30-32. (search)
her. establishment of lithographic Press at Neuchatel. researches upon structure of Mollusks. ins, which you might give in the winter, as at Neuchatel. The custom here is to pay fifty francs forave at least as large an audience here as at Neuchatel. This is the more likely because there is aded a lithographic printing establishment in Neuchatel, which was carried on for many years under h In 1837 M. Edouard Desor joined Agassiz in Neuchatel, and became for many years his intimate assoadame, professor of physics and chemistry at Neuchatel, who prepared the delicate metal alloys in w had founded a lithographic establishment at Neuchatel in the hope of avoiding in future the procrarhaps the son of the celebrated professor of Neuchatel. The answer amazed him; he could hardly belwas at Munich, and they became colleagues at Neuchatel only after Agassiz had been for some years e. Louis Agassiz to Sir Philip Egerton. Neuchatel, September 10, 1839. . . .Under these cir[2 more...]
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 10: 1840-1842: Aet. 33-35. (search)
uch an adventure. Certainly, unless induced by some powerful scientific motive, I should not advise any one to follow my example. On this perilous journey he traced the laminated structure to a depth of eighty feet, and even beyond, though with less distinctness. The summer closed with their famous ascent of the Jungfrau. The party consisted of twelve persons: Agassiz, Desor, Forbes, Heath, and two travelers who had begged to join them,—M. de Chatelier, of Nantes, and M. de Pury, of Neuchatel, a former pupil of Agassiz. The other six were guides; four beside their old and tried friends, Jacob Leuthold and Johann Wahren. They left the hospice of the Grimsel on the 27th of August, at four o'clock in the morning. Crossing the Col of the Oberaar they descended to the snowy plateau which feeds the Viescher glacier. In this grand amphitheatre, walled in by the peaks of the Viescherhorner, they rested for their midday meal. In crossing these fields of snow, while walking with per
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