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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 18: 1855-1860: Aet. 48-53. (search)
umboldt and Owen concerning it. birthday. Longfellow's verses. laboratory at Nahant. invitation to the Museum of natural History in Paris. founding of Museum of atory by the immediate sea-coast. It was situated on the northeastern shore of Nahant, within a stone's throw of broken and bold rocks, where the deep pools furnishedeep glass bowls, or jars, or larger vessels with which Agassiz's laboratory at Nahant was furnished. When the supply was exhausted, new specimens were easily to be ther was his summer work necessarily suspended during winter, his Cambridge and Nahant homes being only about fifteen miles distant from each other. He writes to hisds, the Holbrooks, at this time, You can hardly imagine what a delightful place Nahant is for me now. I can trace the growth of my little marine animals all the year ting of this offer to a friend Agassiz himself says: On one side, my cottage at Nahant by the sea-shore, the reef of Florida, the vessels of the Coast Survey at my co
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 19: 1860-1863: Aet. 53-56. (search)
s missing, but one may easily infer its tenor, and the pleasure it had given him. To Sir Philip de Grey Egerton. Nahant, mass., August 15, 1862. . . . I feel so thankful for your words of sympathy, that I lose not an hour in expressing my feivity which has been awakened during the last few years, and which even at this moment is on the increase. I am now at Nahant, on the sea-shore, studying embryology chiefly with reference to paleontology, and the results are most satisfactory. I his health was already a source of serious anxiety to his friends. He returned much exhausted, and passed the summer at Nahant, where the climate always benefited him, while his laboratory afforded the best conditions for work. If this summer homehan has yet been possible of the geographical or local circumscription of their inhabitants. To Mr. George Ticknor. Nahant, October 24, 1863. my dear Sir,—Among the schemes which I have devised for the improvement of the Museum, there is one
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 20: 1863-1864: Aet. 56-57. (search)
ould be modified accordingly. I should be very glad, my dear sir, if you could give me your views upon this and cognate matters. If, however, your occupations will not permit you to give time to this matter, perhaps you will assist me by pointing to works calculated to throw light upon the subject of my inquiry, or by putting me in correspondence with persons who have the ability and the leisure to write about it. I remain, dear sir, faithfully, Samuel G. Howe. To Dr. S. G. Howe. Nahant, August 9, 1863. my dear Doctor,—When I acknowledged a few days ago the receipt of your invitation to put in writing my views upon the management of the negro race as part of the free population of the United States, I stated to you that there was a preliminary question of the utmost importance to be examined first, since whatever convictions may be formed upon that point must necessarily influence everything else relating to the subject. The question is simply this: Is there to be a per
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 21: 1865-1868: Aet. 58-61. (search)
y in Brazil.--return to Cambridge. lectures in Boston and New York. summer at Nahant. letter to Professor Peirce on the Survey of Boston Harbor. death of his moth ago I was thinking how I should employ my summer. I foresaw that in going to Nahant I should not find the rest I need after all the fatigue of the two last years, y 7, 1866. dear mother,—When you receive this letter we shall be, I hope, at Nahant, where our children and grandchildren are waiting for us. To-morrow we shall sts a tender spot. . . . The summer of 1867 was passed very tranquilly at his Nahant laboratory, in that quiet work with his specimens and his microscope which pleaof public utility. To Professor Peirce, Superintendent of the Coast Survey. Nahant, September 11, 1867. dear Sir,—Far from considering your request a tax upon heir near neighborhood and constant personal intercourse, both at Cambridge and Nahant, made letters rare between them. Friends who see each other so often are infre
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 22: 1868-1871: Aet. 61-64. (search)
anence of the ocean trough, on the margin of which these more recent beds have been formed. I am well aware that in a comparatively recent period, portions of Canada and the United States, which now stand six or seven hundred feet above the level of the sea, have been under water; but this has not changed the configuration of the continent, if we admit that the latter is in reality circumscribed by the two hundred fathom curve of depth. The summer was passed in his beloved laboratory at Nahant (as it proved, the last he ever spent there), where he was still continuing the preparation of his work on sharks and skates. At the close of the summer, he interrupted this occupation for one to which he brought not only the reverence of a disciple, but a life-long debt of personal gratitude and affection. He had been entreated to deliver the address at the Humboldt Centennial Celebration (September 15, 1869), organized under the auspices of the Boston Society of Natural History. He had
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 25: 1872-1873: Aet. 65-66. (search)
Return to Cambridge. summer school proposed. interest of Agassiz. gift of Mr. Anderson. prospectus of Penikese school. difficulties. opening of school. summer work. close of school. last course of lectures at Museum. lecture before board of Agriculture. illness. death. place of Burial. In October, 1872, Agassiz returned to Cambridge. To arrange the collections he had brought back, to write a report of his journey and its results, to pass the next summer quietly at his Nahant laboratory, continuing his work on the Sharks and Skates, for which he had brought home new and valuable material, seemed the natural sequence of his year of travel. But he found a new scheme of education on foot; one for which he had himself given the first impulse, but which some of his younger friends had carefully considered and discussed in his absence, being confident that with his help it might be accomplished. The plan was to establish a summer school of natural history somewhere
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
lectures, 525; school for young ladies opened, 526, and success, 527; courses of lectures, 529; close, 530; Contributions to the Natural History of the United States projected, 533; concluded, 542, 568, 580; fiftieth birthday, 542; laboratory at Nahant, 548, 578. 581, 647, 674; invitation to Paris, 550, 552; refusal, and reasons, 551-554; receives cross of Legion of Honor, 552; dangerous state of collections, 554; an ideal museum, 555-559 Museum of Comparative Zoology founded, 560-564; visit tes, 565; additional grants, 569, 668, 776; first Bulletin, 569; growth, 680; new subscription, 668; new building, 668; object and scope, 668; new collections, 671; staff, 678; a birthday gift, 776; last lectures by Agassiz, 776. Nageli, 30. Nahant, laboratory at, 548, 678, 581, 647, 674. National Academy of Sciences founded, 569. Negroes, 500, 504, 591, 594, 600, 605, 612. Neuchatel, plans for, 190, 193, 199; accepts profesorship there, 202; first lecture, 206; founding of Natural