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Scotia (search for this): chapter 19
ts of the Museum. Additions have since been made, and the north wing is completed, while the Peabody Museum occupies a portion of the ground allotted to the south wing. This event, so full of significance for Agassiz, took place a few days before he sailed for Europe, having determined to devote the few weeks of the college and school vacation to a flying visit in Switzerland. The incidents of this visit were of a wholly domestic nature and hardly belong here. He paused a few days in Ireland and England to see his old friends, the Earl of Enniskillen and Sir Philip Egerton, and review their collections. A day or two in London gave him, in like manner, a few hours at the British Museum, a day with Owen at Richmond, and an opportunity to greet old friends and colleagues called together to meet him at Sir Roderick Murchison's. He allowed himself also a week in Paris, made delightful by the cordiality and hospitality of the professors of the Jardin des Plantes, and by the welcome
Heidelberg (Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) (search for this): chapter 19
that hour, they stationed the musicians before the house, and as the last stroke of twelve sounded, the succeeding stillness was broken by men's voices singing a Bach choral. When Agassiz stepped out to see whence came this pleasant salutation, he was met by his young friends bringing flowers and congratulations. Then followed one number after another of the well-ordered selection, into which was admitted here and there a German student song in memory of Agassiz's own university life at Heidelberg and Munich. It was late, or rather early, since the new day was already begun, before the little concert was over and the guests had dispersed. It is difficult to reproduce with anything like its original glow and coloring a scene of this kind. It will no more be called back than the hour or the moonlight night which had the warmth and softness of June. It is recorded here only because it illustrates the intimate personal sympathy between Agassiz and his students. For this occasion
Asia (search for this): chapter 19
general conceptions which lie at the base of the plan you have traced. I admire the long series of physiological investigations, beginning with the embryology of the so-called simple and lower organisms and ascending by degrees to the more complicated. I admire that ever-renewed comparison of the types belonging to our planet, in its present condition, with those now found only in a fossil state, so abundant in the immense space lying between the shores opposite to northern Europe and northern Asia. The geographical distribution of organic forms in curves of equal density of occupation represents in great degree the inflexions of the isothermal lines. . . . I am charged by the king, who knows the value of your older works, and who still feels for you the affectionate regard which he formerly expressed in person, to request that you will place his name at the head of your long list of subscribers. He wishes that an excursion across the Atlantic valley may one day bring you, who ha
California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
ossible care and beauty of finish. I estimated my materials at ten volumes, quarto, and having fixed the price at 60 francs ($12.00) a volume, thought I might, perhaps, dispose of five hundred. I brought out my prospectus, and I have to-day seventeen hundred subscribers. What do you say to that for a work which is to cost six hundred francs a copy, and of which nothing has as yet appeared? Nor is the list closed yet, for every day I receive new subscriptions,—this very morning one from California! Where will not the love of science find its niche! . . . In the same strain he says, at a little later date, to Sir Charles Lyell: You will, no doubt, be pleased to learn that the first volume of my new work, Contributions to the Natural History of the United States, which is to consist of ten volumes, quarto, is now printing, to come out this summer. I hope it will show that I have not been idle during ten years silence. I am somewhat anxious about the reception of my first chapter
Geneva (Switzerland) (search for this): chapter 19
tirement, at Montagny, near the foot of the Jura, where Madame Agassiz was then residing with her daughter. The days were chiefly spent in an old-fashioned garden, where a corner shut in by ivy and shaded by trees made a pleasant out-of-door sitting-room. There he told his mother, as he had never been able to tell her in letters, of his life and home in the United States, and of the Museum to which he was returning, and which was to give him the means of doing for the study of nature all he had ever hoped to accomplish. His quiet stay here was interrupted only by a visit of a few days to his sister at Lausanne, and a trip to the Diablerets, where his brother, then a great invalid, was staying. He also passed a day or two at Geneva, where he was called to a meeting of the Helvetic Society, which gave him an opportunity of renewing old ties of friendship, as well as scientific relations, with the naturalists of his own country, with Pictet de la Rive, de Candolle, Favre, and others.
Department de Ville de Paris (France) (search for this): chapter 19
to each other ever since your first sojourn at Paris, but also the admiration I have never ceased t To his old friend Professor Valenciennes, in Paris, he writes: I have just had an evidence of whastruction in France. To Professor Agassiz. Paris, August 19, 1857. Sir,—By the decease of M.leontology in the Museum of Natural History in Paris becomes vacant. You are French; you have enriture must prevail over the attractions of the (Paris) Museum. I hope I shall be wise enough not too fight my way in the midst of the coteries of Paris. Were I offered absolute power for the reorgaMurchison's. He allowed himself also a week in Paris, made delightful by the cordiality and hospita. The happiest hours of this brief sojourn in Paris were perhaps spent with his old and dear frienValenciennes, the associate of earlier days in Paris, when the presence of Cuvier and Humboldt gaveing interest to scientific work there. From Paris he hastened on to his mother in Switzerland, d[1 more...]
Mexico (Mexico, Mexico) (search for this): chapter 19
have never believed that this illustrious man, who is also a man of warm heart, a noble soul, would accept the generous offers made to him from Paris. I knew that gratitude would keep him in the new country, where he finds such an immense territory to explore, and such liberal aid in his work. In writing 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 command from Nova Scotia to Mexico, and, if I choose, all along the coast of the Pacific,— and on the other, the Jardin des Plantes, with all its accumulated treasures. Rightly considered, the chance of studying nature must prevail over the attractions of the (Paris) Museum. I hope I shall be wise enough not to be tempted even by the prospect of a new edition of the Poissons Fossiles. To his old friend Charles Martins, the naturalist, he writes: The work I have undertaken here, and the confidence shown in me by those w
Halifax (Canada) (search for this): chapter 19
vations. I have never believed that this illustrious man, who is also a man of warm heart, a noble soul, would accept the generous offers made to him from Paris. I knew that gratitude would keep him in the new country, where he finds such an immense territory to explore, and such liberal aid in his work. In writing 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 command from Nova Scotia to Mexico, and, if I choose, all along the coast of the Pacific,— and on the other, the Jardin des Plantes, with all its accumulated treasures. Rightly considered, the chance of studying nature must prevail over the attractions of the (Paris) Museum. I hope I shall be wise enough not to be tempted even by the prospect of a new edition of the Poissons Fossiles. To his old friend Charles Martins, the naturalist, he writes: The work I have undertaken here, and the confidence shown in
Nahant (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 19
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
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 19
Contributions to natural History of the United States. remarkable subscription. review of the work. his Contributions to the Natural History of the United States. It was originally planned in ten volumes, everk devoted entirely to the Natural History of the United States. Mr. Gray assumed the direction of the business nt the appreciation of the reading public in the United States for pure scientific research, it was because theing, Contributions to the Natural History of the United States. You must have been astonished at my silence, rork, Contributions to the Natural History of the United States, which is to consist of ten volumes, quarto, is the Contributions to the Natural History of the United States consists of four large quarto volumes. The firsompromising with the interests of science in the United States should not be left in a precarious and difficulttell her in letters, of his life and home in the United States, and of the Museum to which he was returning, an
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