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Chapter 15: 1847-1850: Aet. 40-43.

  • Excursions on Coast Survey steamer.
    • -- relations with Dr. Bache, the Superintendent of the Coast Survey. -- political disturbances in Switzerland. -- change of relations with Prussia. -- scientific school established in Cambridge.– chair of natural History offered to Agassiz. -- acceptance. -- removal to Cambridge. -- literary and scientific associations there and in Boston. -- household in Cambridge. -- beginning of Museum. -- journey to Lake Superior.—‘report, with Narration.’—‘principles of Zoology,’ by Agassiz and Gould. -- letters from European friends respecting these publications. -- letter from Hugh Miller. -- second Marriage.–Arrival of his children in America.

One of Agassiz's great pleasures in the summer of 1847 consisted in excursions on board the Coast Survey steamer Bibb, then employed in the survey of the harbor and bay of Boston, under command of Captain (afterward Admiral) Charles Henry Davis. Under no more kindly auspices could Agassiz's relations with this department of government work have been begun. ‘My cabin,’ writes Captain Davis, after their first trip together, ‘seems lonely without you.’

Houghton, Mifflin and company, New York, Boston, 1885.

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