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Louis Agassiz (search for this): chapter 13
were the fishes of the Old Red interesting to Agassiz, but also because, with this fauna, the vertes the highest type in those ancient deposits, Agassiz considered this fauna as representing the embtion. These comprehensive laws, announced by Agassiz in his Poissons Fossiles, and afterward constld Guyot says: See Biographical Memoir of Louis Agassiz, p. 28.— Whatever be the opinions whichited States flitted constantly before him. Agassiz to the Prince of Canino. Neuchatel, Novembern explanation, it should be said that finding Agassiz might be prevented by his poverty from going,s guest for a summer in the United States. Agassiz to the Prince of Canino. Neuchatel, January interest, as showing his attitude and that of Agassiz toward questions which have since acquired a ost grateful friend, A. Sedgwick. From Louis Agassiz to A. Sedgwick. Neuchatel, June, 1845. of March for the opening of a course by Professor Agassiz on the Plan of creation. It is with an [23 more...]
Ehrenberg (search for this): chapter 13
d time to read and profit by your introduction to the Old Red. I am inclined to sing hymns of praise to the Hyperboreans who have helped you in this admirable work. What you say of the specific difference in vertical line and of the increased number of biological epochs is full of interest and wisdom. No wonder you rebel against the idea that the Baltic contains microscopic animals identical with those of the chalk! I foresee, however, a new battle of Waterloo between you and my friend Ehrenberg, who accompanied me lately, just after the Victoria festivals, to the volcanoes of the Eifel with Dechen. Not an inch of ground without infusoria in those regions! For Heaven's sake do not meddle with the infusoria before you have seen the Canada Lakes and completed your journey. Defer them till some more tranquil period of your life. . . . . I must close my letter with the hope that you will never doubt my warm affection. Assuredly I shall find no fault with any course of lectures you
Ernest Favre (search for this): chapter 13
that the fishes of the Old Red constitute an independent fauna, distinct from those of other deposits, but that they also represent in their organization the most remarkable analogy with the first phases of embryonic development in the bony fishes of our epoch, and a no less marked parallelism with the lower degrees of certain types of the class as it now exists on the surface of the earth. It has been said by one of the biographers of Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: Notice biographique, par Ernest Favre. in reference to this work upon the fishes of the Old Red Sandstone: It is difficult to understand why the results of these admirable researches, and of later ones made by him, did not in themselves lead him to support the theory of transformation, of which they seem the natural consequence. It is true that except for the frequent allusion to a creative thought or plan, this introduction to the Fishes of the Old Red might seem to be written by an advocate of the development theory rather
Rafinesque (search for this): chapter 13
d on uninterruptedly, and the results reported to him. Meantime his contemplated journey to the United States flitted constantly before him. Agassiz to the Prince of Canino. Neuchatel, November 19, 1844. . . . Your idea of an illustrated American ichthyology is admirable. But for that we ought to have with us an artist clever enough to paint fishes rapidly from the life. Work but half done is no longer permissible in our days. . . . In this matter I think there is a justice due to Rafinesque. However poor his descriptions, he nevertheless first recognized the necessity of multiplying genera in ichthyology, and that at a time when the thing was far more difficult than now. Several of his genera have even the priority over those now accepted, and I think in the United States it would be easier than elsewhere to find again a part of the materials on which he worked. We must not neglect from this time forth to ask Americans to put us in the way of extending this work throughout
Alexander Braun (search for this): chapter 13
taking a final leave of his cabin among the rocks and ice. Affairs connected with the welfare of the institution in Neuchatel, with which he had been so long connected, still detained him for a part of the winter, and he did not leave for Paris until the first week in March, 1846. His wife and daughters had already preceded him to Germany, where he was to join them again on his way to Paris, and where they were to pass the period of his absence, under the care of his brother-in-law, Mr. Alexander Braun, then living at Carlsruhe. His son was to remain at school at Neuchatel. It was two o'clock at night when he left his home of so many years. There had been a general sadness at the thought of his departure, and every testimony of affection and respect accompanied him. The students came in procession with torchlights to give him a parting serenade, and many of his friends and colleagues were also present to bid him farewell. M. Louis Favre says in his Memoir, Great was the emotio
Fossiles Vieux (search for this): chapter 13
how that the four great types of the animal kingdom, Radiates, Mollusks, Articulates, and Vertebrates, had appeared together. Introduction to the Poissons Fossiles du Vieux Gres Rouge, p.22. It is henceforth demonstrated, says Agassiz, that the fishes were included in the plan of the first organic combinations which made the poiimultaneity of appearance, as well as the richness and variety displayed by invertebrate classes from the beginning, made it Introduction to the Poissons Fossiles du Vieux Gres Rouge, p. 21. impossible to refer the first inhabitants of the earth to a few stocks, subsequently differentiated under the influence of external conditions of existence. . . . He adds: Introduction to the Poissons Fossiles du Vieux Gres Rouge, p. 24. I have elsewhere presented my views upon the development through which the successive creations have passed during the history of our planet. But what I wish to prove here, by a careful discussion of the facts reported in the fol
Alexander Humboldt (search for this): chapter 13
here is no room for picturesque description, and little is told of the wonderful scenes they witnessed by day and night, nothing of personal peril and adventure. This task concluded, he went to England, where he was to spend the few remaining days previous to his departure. Among the last words of farewell which reached him just as he was leaving the Old World, little thinking then that he was to make a permanent home in America, were these lines from Humboldt, written at Sans Souci: Be happy in this new undertaking, and preserve for me the first place under the head of friendship in your heart. When you return I shall be here no more, but the king and queen will receive you on this historic hill with the affection which, for so many reasons, you merit. . . . Your illegible but much attached friend, A. Humboldt. So closed this period of Agassiz's life. The next was to open in new scenes, under wholly different conditions. He sailed for America in September, 1846.
Adam Sedgwick (search for this): chapter 13
an owing to the interest of the King of Prussia in the expedition. correspondence between Professor Sedgwick and Agassiz on development theory. final scientific work in Neuchatel and Paris. publicaditional funds for your traveling expenses. . . . The following correspondence with Professor Adam Sedgwick is of interest, as showing his attitude and that of Agassiz toward questions which have since acquired a still greater scientific importance. Professor Adam Sedgwick to Louis Agassiz. Trinity Coll., Cambridge, April 10, 1845. my dear Professor,—The British Association is to meet rejoice to see you. Ever, my dear Professor, your most faithful and most grateful friend, A. Sedgwick. From Louis Agassiz to A. Sedgwick. Neuchatel, June, 1845. . . . I reproach myself forA. Sedgwick. Neuchatel, June, 1845. . . . I reproach myself for not acknowledging at once your most interesting letter of April 10th. But you will easily understand that in the midst of the rush of work consequent upon my preparation for a journey of several ye
Canino (search for this): chapter 13
as unable to make one of the glacial party this year, but the work was carried on uninterruptedly, and the results reported to him. Meantime his contemplated journey to the United States flitted constantly before him. Agassiz to the Prince of Canino. Neuchatel, November 19, 1844. . . . Your idea of an illustrated American ichthyology is admirable. But for that we ought to have with us an artist clever enough to paint fishes rapidly from the life. Work but half done is no longer permissa new aspect of the projected journey. In explanation, it should be said that finding Agassiz might be prevented by his poverty from going, the prince had invited him to be his guest for a summer in the United States. Agassiz to the Prince of Canino. Neuchatel, January 7, 1845. . . . I have received an excellent piece of news from Humboldt, which I hasten to share with you. I venture to believe that it will please you also. . . . . I had written to Humboldt of our plans, and of your kind
Hugh Miller (search for this): chapter 13
ter (for the first time since it had ceased to exist) the series of beings; nor could anything, thus far revealed from extinct creations, have led us to anticipate its existence. So true is it that observation alone is a safe guide to the laws of development of organized beings, and that we must be on our guard against all those systems of transformation of species so lightly invented by the imagination. The author goes on to state that the discovery of these fossils was mainly due to Hugh Miller, and that his own work had been confined to the identification of their character and the determination of their relations to the already known fossil fishes. This work, upon a type so extraordinary, implied, however, innumerable and reiterated comparisons, and a minute study of the least fragments of the remains which could be procured. The materials were chiefly obtained in Scotland; but Sir Roderick Murchison also contributed his own collection from the Old Red of Russia, and variou
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