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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 7: 1832-1834: Aet. 25-27. (search)
lecture. success as a teacher. love of teaching. influence upon the scientific life of Neuchatel. proposal from University of Heidelberg. proposal declined. threatened blindness. correspondence with Humboldt. marriage. invitation from Charpentier. invitation to visit England. Wollaston prize. first number of Poissons Fossiles. review of the work. The following autumn Agassiz assumed the duties of his professorship at Neuchatel. His opening lecture Upon the Relations between theed by fossil fishes or by the drawings of rare or unique specimens. He was known in all the museums of Europe as an indefatigable worker and collector, seeking everywhere materials for comparison. Among the letters of this date is one from Charpentier, one of the pioneers of glacial investigation, under whose auspices, two years later, Agassiz began his inquiries into glacial phenomena. He writes him from the neighborhood of Bex, his home in the valley of the Rhone, the classic land of gla
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 7: 1834-1837: Aet. 27-30. (search)
ttention drawn to glacial phenomena. summer at Bex with Charpentier. sale of original drawings for fossil fishes. meeting had considered them only as local phenomena. Venetz and Charpentier were the first to detect their wider significance. The debris or loose material they had left behind them; and Charpentier went farther, and affirmed that all the erratic boulderse. Still, he was anxious to see the facts in place, and Charpentier was glad to be his guide. He therefore passed his vacatng to confirm his own doubts, and to disabuse his friend Charpentier of his errors. But after visiting with him the glaciersed that a too narrow interpretation of the phenomena was Charpentier's only mistake. During this otherwise delightful summon which followed, in special section, between Von Buch, Charpentier, and Agassiz. Elie de Beaumont, who should have made the prejudiced eyes of his friend Von Buch. Over your and Charpentier's moraines, he says, in one of his letters, Leopold von
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 11: 1842-1843: Aet. 35-36. (search)
e glacier and also at their junction, where two glaciers meet at the outlet of adjoining valleys; and how, also, the waving lines formed by the layers on the surface change to sharper concentric curves with a marked axis, as the glacier descends to lower levels. For a full demonstration of the matter, I ought to send you my map and plans, of which I have, as yet, no duplicates; but the fact is incontestable, and you will oblige me by announcing it in the geological section at Padua. M. Charpentier, who is going to your meeting, will contest it, but you can tell him from me that it is as evident as the stratification of the Neptunic rocks. To see and understand it fully, however, one must stand well above the glacier, so as to command the surface as a whole in one view. I would add that I am not now alluding to the blue and white bands in the ice of which I spoke to you last year; this is a quite distinct phenomenon. I wish I could accept your kind invitation, but until I have
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
, Leopold von, 201, 256, 264, 265, 272, 274, 345. Buckland, Dr., invites Agassiz to England, 232; acts as his guide to fossil fishes, 250; to glacier tracks, 306; a convert to glacial theory, 307, 309, 311; mentioned by Murchison, 468. Burkhardt, 320, 442, 479, 494, 647. C. Cabot, J. E., 466. Cambridge, 457-459, 461. Cambridge, first mention of, 252. Campanularia, 494. Carlsruhe, Agassiz at, 30, 33. Cary, T. G., 581, 680. Castanea, 660. Charleston, S. C., 491. Charpentier, 231, 261, 358. Chavannes, Professor, 15. Chelius, 30. Chemidium, 709. Chemidium-like sponge, 704. Chiem, lake of, 84. Chilian, valley of, 756. Chironectes pictus, 701. Chorocua Bay, 733. Christinat, Mr., 159, 459, 478. Civil war, 568, 570, 575, 577, 579, 591. Clark, H. J., 494, 539. Coal deposits at Lota, age of, 753. Coal mines at Sandy Point, 718. Coast range, 755. Coelenterata, Owen on the term, 575. Collections, growth of, 507; embryological, 5
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, chapter 28 (search)
essor Agassiz wrote in his maturer years on geological and glacial phenomena. These papers, rich with accumulated stores of scientific lore, and seeming, in their simple but animated and engaging style, to be genuine outgrowths of their author's temperament, as well as of his wisdom, need no recommendation.—Boston Advertiser. We commend them as giving in popular form the general outline and many local details of the glacial theory which Agassiz elaborated to cosmic proportions from Charpentier's more limited groundwork, and for which he labored and battled against potent adversaries during many years, until from a hypothesis he reduced it to a demonstration.—New York World. The simple grace of style, the pure and idiomatic English, itself a model for the student, the clearness of illustration, the certainty of the author's grasp of his subject, give them a wonderful charm, even to those who neither know nor care for their subject. Some men can make any subject interesting t