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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 7: 1834-1837: Aet. 27-30. (search)
id present of your great work on fossil fishes—livraison 1-22 —received, with the plates. I also gave a notice of the work in the April number of the Journal The American Journal of Science and Arts. (this present month), and republished Mr. Bakewell's account of your visit to Mr. Mantell's museum. In Boston I made some little efforts in behalf of your work, and have the pleasure of naming as follows:— Harvard University, Cambridge (Cambridge is only four miles from Boston), by Hon. Josiah Quincy, President. Boston Athenaeum, by its Librarian. Benjamin Green, Esq., President of the Boston Natural History Society. I shall make application to some other institutions or individuals, but do not venture to promise anything more than my best exertions . . . . Agassiz little dreamed, as he read this letter, how familiar these far-off localities would become to him, or how often, in after years, he would traverse by day and by night the four miles which lay between Boston<