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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 15: 1847-1850: Aet. 40-43. (search)
ous moment, so far as his social and personal relations were concerned. The college was then on a smaller scale than now, but upon its list of professors were names which would have given distinction to any university. In letters, there were Longfellow and Lowell, and Felton, the genial Greek scholar, of whom Longfellow himself wrote, In Attica thy birthplace should have been. In science, there were Peirce, the mathematician, and Dr. Asa Gray, then just installed at the Botanical Garden, andLongfellow himself wrote, In Attica thy birthplace should have been. In science, there were Peirce, the mathematician, and Dr. Asa Gray, then just installed at the Botanical Garden, and Jeffries Wyman, the comparative anatomist, appointed at about the same time with Agassiz himself. To these we might almost add, as influencing the scientific character of Harvard, Dr. Bache, the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, and Charles Henry Davis, the head of the Nautical Almanac, since the kindly presence of the former was constantly invoked as friend and counselor in the scientific departments, while the latter had his residence in Cambridge, and was as intimately associated with the
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 18: 1855-1860: Aet. 48-53. (search)
urope and America. letters from Humboldt and Owen concerning it. birthday. Longfellow's verses. laboratory at Nahant. invitation to the Museum of natural Historynts. For this occasion also were written the wellknown birthday verses by Longfellow, which were read the next day at a dinner given to Agassiz by the Saturday Club. In speaking of Longfellow's relation to this club, Holmes says: On one occasion he read a short poem at the table. It was in honor of Agassiz's birthday, and I which he read his charming verses. Although included in many collections of Longfellow's Poems, they are reproduced here, because the story seems incomplete withoutt is growing late and dark, And my boy does not return!” May 28, 1857. Longfellow had an exquisite touch for occasions of this kind, whether serious or mirthfumerson, who was one of its most constant members: At one end of the table sat Longfellow, florid, quiet, benignant, soft-voiced, a most agreeable rather than a brilli
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 21: 1865-1868: Aet. 58-61. (search)
e. lectures in Boston and New York. summer at Nahant. letter to Professor Peirce on the Survey of Boston Harbor. death of his mother. illness. correspondence with Oswald Heer. summer journey in the West. Cornell University. letter from Longfellow. The next important event in the life of Agassiz, due in the first instance to his failing health, which made some change of scene and climate necessary, is best announced by himself in the following letter. To his mother. Cambridge, Marking up of that mass of ice. He who does not distinguish between these two series of facts, and perceive their connection, does not understand the geology of the Quaternary epoch. . . Of about this date is the following pleasant letter from Longfellow to Agassiz. Although it has no special bearing upon what precedes, it is inserted here, because their near neighborhood and constant personal intercourse, both at Cambridge and Nahant, made letters rare between them. Friends who see each othe
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
n to Agassiz, 375. R. W. Emerson to Agassiz, 620. Edward Forbes to Agassiz, 337. Oswald Heer to Agassiz, 659. Dr. Howe to Agassiz, 591, 612. A. von Humboldt to Agassiz, 187, 222, 253, 266, 312, 344, 381, 536, (extract) 400. H. W. Longfellow to Agassiz, 665. Sir Charles Lyell to Agassiz, 234 Lady Lyell to Agassiz, 402. L. von Martius to Agassiz, 641. Hugh Miller to Agassiz, 470. Sir R. Murchison to Agassiz, 339, 467, 572. Richard Owen to Agassiz, 541, 575. B3. to his mother, 27. Charles Darwin to Dr. Tritten, 342. A. von Humboldt to Madame Agassiz, 186. to L. Coulon, 200, 217. to G. Ticknor (extract), 552. Leuckart, 28, 148, 212. Leuthold, 299, 303, 325, 327, 329; death, 364. Longfellow, H. W., 458; verses on Agassiz's fiftieth birthday, 544; Christmas gift, 545. Long Island Sound, 414 Lota, 753. Lota coal deposits, 753. Lowell, James Russell, 458, 547 Lowell, John Amory, 402, 404 Lowell Institute, 402, 430; lectures