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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 15 : 1847 -1850 : Aet. 40 -43 . (search)
Chapter 15: 1847-1850: Aet. 40-43.
Excursions on Coast Survey steamer.
relations with Dr. Bache, the Superintendent of the Coast Survey.
political disturbances in Switzerland.
change of relations with Prussia.
scientific school established in Cambridge.– chair of natural History offered to Agassiz.
acceptance.
re t great trunk glaciers ever filled the valleys of the Rhone, etc. Perhaps you will be present at our next meeting of the British Association at Edinburgh, August, 1850. Olim meminisse juvabit! and then, my dear and valued and most enlightened friend, we may study once more together the surface of my native rocks for auld lang syn veiled to eyes so discerning, I anticipate strange tidings.
I am, my dear sir, with respect and admiration, very truly yours, Hugh Miller.
In the spring of 1850 Agassiz married Elizabeth Cabot Cary, daughter of Thomas Graves Cary, of Boston.
This marriage confirmed his resolve to remain, at least for the present, in the U
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 16 : 1850 -1852 : Aet. 43 -45 . (search)
Chapter 16: 1850-1852: Aet. 43-45.
Proposition from Dr. Bache.
exploration of Florida reefs.
letter to Humboldt concerning work in America.
appointment to professorship of medical College in Charleston, S. C.
life at the South.
views concerning races of men.
Prix Cuvier.
The following letter from the Superintendent of the Coast Survey determined for Agassiz the chief events of the winter of 1851.
From Alexander Dallas Bache. Webb's hill, October 30, 1850.
my dear friend,—Would it be possible for you to devote six weeks or two months to the examination of the Florida reefs and keys in connection with their survey?
It is extremely important to ascertain what they are and how formed.
One account treats them as growing corals, another as masses of something resembling oolite, piled together, barrier-wise.
You see that this lies at the root of the progress of the reef, so important to navigation, of the use to be made of it in placing our signals, of the use
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 17 : 1852 -1855 : Aet. 45 -48 . (search)