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Aar, glacier, 299, 317, 319, 349, 357, 364; last visit to, 396; boulder-monument from, 783. Abert, Colonel, 423. ‘Academy, The Little,’ 54, 67, 94, 154. Ackermann, 100. Actiniae, 440. Adelstaetten, 86. Agassiz, Alexander, 558, 628. Agassiz, Auguste, 3, 5, 8, 16, 24, 148. Agassiz, Cecile Braun, 230; talent as an artist, 230. Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary, 477. Agassiz, Louis, 1; as a teacher, 7; popular reading, 66; becomes pastor at Concise, 134; death, 280. Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe, birthplace, 1; first aquarium, 2; early education, 2; love of natural history, 3; boyish studies and amusements, 4; taste for handicraft; its after use, 4, 5; adventure with his brother on the ice, 5; goes to Bienne, 6; college of Bienne, 6, 7; vacations, 8; own sketch of plans of study at fourteen, 12; school and college note-books, 13,14; distaste for commercial life, 14; goes to Lausanne, 15; to the medical school at Zurich, 15; copies books on natural history, 16, 148; first excursion in the Alps, 16, 17; offer of adoption by a Genevese gentleman, 17, 18; goes to Heidelberg, 19; student life, 22; described in Braun's letters, 25, 27; at Carlsruhe, 30, 33; illness, 32; at Munich, 46; description of Museum at Stuttgart, 47; of mammoth, 47; at Munich, 52, 55, 67, 143; ‘The Little Academy,’ 54, 67, 94, 154; ‘Freshwater fishes of Europe,’ 59; desire to travel, 60, 63, 64, 68; vacation trip, 70; work on Brazilian fishes, 74; second vacation trip, 82; growing collections, 95; plans for travel with Humboldt, 99, 101, 102; doctor of philosophy, 109; at Orbe and Cudrefin, 118; death of Dr. Mayor, 118; doctor of medicine, 119, 127; new interest in medicine, 120; first work on fossil fishes, 120, 123; at Vienna, 130, 132; negotiations with Cotta, 132, 133 137; university life, 144; at home, 158; studies on cholera, 159; arrives in Paris, 162; homesickness, 163; Cuvier gives him his fossil fishes, 166; last interview with Cuvier, 167; embarrassments, 169, 177, 178; offer from Ferussac, 171; plans for disposing of collection, 176; curious dream, 181; Humboldt's gift, 183; first sight of sea, 189; plans for going to Neuchatel, 190, 193, 199; inducements to stay in Paris, 194, 197; birthday festival, 196; call to Neuchatel, 199, 201, 202; first lecture at Neuchatel, 206; success as a teacher, 207, 208, 211; impulse given to science, 208; children's lectures, 208; call to Heidelberg, 211, 214, 217; declination, 214, 218; sale of collection, 216, 217, 222; threatened blindness, 218; publishing ‘Fossil Fishes,’ 220, 238; marriage, 230; growing reputations [786] 230; invited to England, 232; receives Wollaston prize, 235; views on classification and development, 239, 245; difficulties in the work on ‘Fossil Fishes,’ 246, 257; first visit to England, 248; material for ‘Fossil Fishes,’ 250; return to Neuchatel, 251; first relations with New England, 252; second visit to England, 259; various works, 259; receives Wollaston medal, 260; first glacial work, 260; sale of original drawings of ‘Fossil Fishes,’ 262; on the Jura, 262; ‘glacial theory’ announced, 263; opposition, 264, 268; invitation to Geneva, 276; to Lau-sanne, 280; death of his father, 280; lithographical press, 281, 284; variety of work, 282; researches on mollusks, 283, 285; chromolithographs, 282, 286; elected into Royal Society, 286; new glacial work, 287, 293, 295; first English letter, 289; ‘Études sur les Glaciers,’ 296; on the glacier of the Aar, 298, 317, 319, 350, 355, 357, 364, 396; ‘Hotel des Neuchatelois,’ 298, 318, 332, 350; work, 301; ascent of the Strahleck, 302; of the Siedelhorn, 306; second visit to England, 306; in the Highlands, 306; in Ireland, 310; researches in the interior of glacier, 321; ascent of the Ewigschneehorn, 323; of the Jungfrau, 323-330; on the Viescher, 325; the chalet of Meril, 325; the Aletsch, 326; the Col of Rotthal, 327; the peak, 329; the descent, 330, 331; zoological work, 333; various publications, 333; unity in work, 336; on glaciers, 337-347; ‘Fossil Fishes,’ 348; gifts from the king of Prussia, 349, 379; plans for visiting the United States, 355, 377; microscopic study of fossil fishes, 359; critical point, 361; publishes ‘Fossil Fishes,’ 366; not an evolutionist, 371; belief in a Creator, 372, 890, 396; fish skeletons, 374; plan of creation, 388-396; last visit to glacier, 897; receives Monthyon prize, 398; publishes ‘Systeme Glaciaire,’ 398; sails for America, 400; arrives in Boston, 401; lectures, 402, 403, 444; their success, 404, 406, 431, 444: visit to New Haven, 408, 409, 413; impressions, 409, 432, 434; American hospitality, 410; Mercantile Library Association, 411; New York, 415, 425; Princeton, 415; Philadelphia, 416; American scientific men, 419, 436; Hudson River, 426; West Point, 426; Albany, 427; lectures on glaciers, 430; American forests, 439; erratic phenomena, 439; medusae and polyps, 440; plans for travel, 441; at East Boston, 442; first birthday in America, 445; on the ‘Bibb,’ 453; first dredging, 455; leaves Prussian service, 456; professor at Harvard, 457; removes to Cambridge, 457; death of his wife, 461; begins a collection, 462; excursion to Lake Superior, 463, 466; ‘Principles of Zoology’ published, 466; second marriage, 477; arrival of his children, 478; examination of Florida reefs, 480-487; radiates, 488-490; professor at Charleston, S. C., 491; laboratory on Sullivan's Island, 492; the ‘Hollow Tree,’ 495-497; origin of human race, 497-504; receives the ‘Prix Cuvier,’ 505; lectures at Smithsonian Institution; made regent of, 506; growth of collections, 507; their sale, 508; illness at Charleston, 508; relation of living to fossil animals, 510; return to the north, 512; invitation to Zurich, 513, and refusal, 517; circularon collecting fishes, 518, and response, 519; new house in Cambridge, 523; manner of study, 524; weekly meetings, 525; renewed lectures, 525; school for young ladies opened, 526, and success, 527; courses of lectures, 529; close, 530; ‘Contributions to the Natural History of the United States’ projected, 533; concluded, 542, 568, 580; fiftieth birthday, 542; laboratory at Nahant, 548, 578. [787] 581, 647, 674; invitation to Paris, 550, 552; refusal, and reasons, 551-554; receives cross of Legion of Honor, 552; dangerous state of collections, 554; an ideal museum, 555-559 Museum of Comparative Zoology founded, 560-564; visit to Europe, 562; teaching at museum, 566; attitude during civil war, 568, 575, 577, 591; urges founding National Academy, 669; naturalized, 570; receives Copley medal, 572; lecturing tour, 580; ethnographical collections, 582; hydrographical, distribution of animals, 585; future of negro race, 591, 594, 600, 612; visit to Maine, 622; to Brazil, 625; return, 638, 644; at Lowell Institute, 624; at Cooper Institute, 645; illness, 657; journey to the West, 661; professor at Cornell University, 662; address at Humboldt Centennial, 674; illness, 676; anxiety for Museum, 676, 680; restored health, 689; Hassler expedition, 690, 749; at Talcahuana, 750; journey from Talcahuana to Santiago, 752-758; elected Foreign Associate of the Institute of France, 759; at the Galapagos islands, 759-764; at San Francisco, 764; return to Cambridge, 765; summer school projected, 766; gift of Penikese, 767; opening of school, 769; last lectures at Museum, 776; last work, 778; last lecture, 782; last visit to Museum, 782; death, 783. Agassiz, Rose Mayor, 1; sympathy with her son, 2, 3; at Concise, 135; visit to, 563; death, 656. Albany, 427. Albemarle Island, 760. Aletsch, glacier of the, 326, 331. Alps, first excursion in, 16, 17; later excursions. 287; first permanent station, 298. Amalgamation, 600, 609, 612, 616. Amazons, the, 630, 636, 640, 646. America, native races of, 581. America, South, native races of, 643. American forests, 439. Ancud, 748. Anderson, John, 767. Anderson School of Natural History, 768; opening, 771. Anthony, J. G., 679. Asterolepis, 473. Australian race, 500. Austrian custom-house officers, 87.B.
Bache, A. D. , 422, 455, 458, 480, 482, 485. Bachelor's Peak, 721. Baer, 150. Bailey, Professor, 426. Baird, S. F. 424. Balanus, 469. Bancroft, George, 645. Barbados, 703. Barnard, J. M , 680. Beaumont, Elie de, aids Agassiz with a collection of fossil fishes, 176; at the Helvetic Association at Neuchatel, 264. Berlin, University of, quoted, 569. Beroids, 489. ‘Bibb,’ U. S. Coast Survey steamer, 453, 671. ‘Bibliographia Zoologica,’ 335. Bienne, college at, 6, 7. Bischoff, 29. Blake, J. H., 691. Bombinator obstetricans, observations on, 33, 35, 36, 41. Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, 355, 363, 378, 379. Booth, 419. Borja Bay, 721. Boston, 401, 430. Boston, East, 442; laboratory, 443; observations upon the geology of, with reference to the glacial theory, 449, 450. Boston Harbor, 648. Botany, questions in, 40. Bowditch, 438. Braun, Alexander, 24, 25, 31, 67, 89, 94, 143, 179, 397, 643. Brazil, visit to, 625; freshwater fauna of, 633, 638, 640, 646; glacier phenomena, 638. Brewster, Sir, David, 473. Brongniart, 176. Bronn, 29, 48; his collection now in Cambridge, 30. Brown-Sequard, Dr., 782. Buch, Leopold von, 201, 256, 264, 265, 272, 274, 345. [788] Buckland, Dr., invites Agassiz to England, 232; acts as his guide to fossil fishes, 250; to glacier tracks, 306; a convert to glacial theory, 307, 309, 311; mentioned by Murchison, 468. Burkhardt, 320, 442, 479, 494, 647.C.
Cabot, J. E., 466. Cambridge, 457-459, 461. Cambridge, first mention of, 252. Campanularia, 494. Carlsruhe, Agassiz at, 30, 33. Cary, T. G., 581, 680. Castanea, 660. Charleston, S. C., 491. Charpentier, 231, 261, 358. Chavannes, Professor, 15. Chelius, 30. Chemidium, 709. Chemidium-like sponge, 704. Chiem, lake of, 84. Chilian, valley of, 756. Chironectes pictus, 701. Chorocua Bay, 733. Christinat, Mr., 159, 459, 478. Civil war, 568, 570, 575, 577, 579, 591. Clark, H. J., 494, 539. Coal deposits at Lota, age of, 753. Coal mines at Sandy Point, 718. Coast range, 755. Coelenterata, Owen on the term, 575. Collections, growth of, 507; embryological, 507; appropriation for; place of storage; sale, 508. Conception Bay, 750. Concise, Parsonage of, 134. Connecticut geology, 415. Connecticut River, 413. Connor's Cove, 746. Corcovado Gulf, 746. Corcovado Peak, 746. ‘Contributions to Natural History of the United States,’ 533, 536, 538, 539, 542, 553. Copley medal, 572. Coral collection, 487, 490. Cordilleras, 755. Cornell University, 662. Cotting, B. E., 444. Coulon, H., 300, 301. Coulon, L. 190, 199, 208, 215. Coutinho, Major, 632, 636. Crinoids, deep-sea and fossil, compared, 705. Ctenophorae, 489. Cudrefin, 1, 9. Curicu, 753, 756. Cuvier, Georges, dedication to, 75; notes on Spix fishes, 108; reception of Agassiz, 164; gives material for fossil fishes, 166; last words, 168. Cyclopoma spinosum, curious dream about, 181. Cyprinus uranoscopus, 76.D.
Dana, J. D., 414, 421, 436. Darwin, C., accepts glacier theory, 342; in ‘Lake Superior,’ 469; on Massachusetts cirrepedia, 469; estimation of Darwinism, 647; of Agassiz, 666. Davis, Admiral, 454, 458. Deep-sea dredgings, 671, 672, 690-704, 715. Deep-sea fauna, 707. De Kay, 436. De la hive, A., invites Agassiz to Geneva, 276. Desor, 282, 287, 300, 317, 320, 324, 332, 442, 446, 448, 450. Dinkel, Joseph, 92, 137, 141, 174, 177, 189, 250, 287. Dinkel, his description of Agassiz, 93. Dollinger, 45, 52, 54, 90, 150. Dravton, 422. Drift-hills, 654.E.
Easter fete, 10, 11. Echinarachnius parma, 489. Echinoderms, relation to medusa, 489. Eden Harbor, 745. Egerton, Lord, Francis, buys original drawings, 262. 311. Egerton, Sir, Philip, 232, 249, 251, 262, 562. Elizabeth islands, 718. Embryonic and specific development, 490. Emerson, R. W., 459, 525, 619, 621. Emperor of Brazil, 625, 632, 634, 637, 640. England, first visit to, 248; generosity of naturalists, 250; second visit to, 306. English Narrows, 745. Enniskillen, Lord, 251, 562. Equality of races, 604. [789] Escher von der Linth, 320, 332. Esslingen, 48. Estuaries, 655. Ethnographical circular, 581. ‘Evolution and Permanence of Type,’ 777. Ewigschneehorn, 323.F.
Fagus castaneafolia, 660. Favre, E., quotation from, 282, 371. Favre, L., quotation from, 211, 397. Felton, C. C., 458, 477, 529. Ferussac, 171. Fishes, classification, 203, 239; collecting, 57, 58, 76, 78; prophetic types, 239. Fishes of America, 377, 518. 520. Fishes of Brazil, 633, 638, 640, 646, 682. Fishes, Spix's Brazilian, 74, 79, 98, 106, 108, 111, 121. Fishes of Europe, 59, 92,112, 122, 585; of Kentucky, 523; of New York, 428; of Switzerland, 38. Fishes, fossil, geological and genetic development, 204, 239; study of bones, 359, 374; in English collections, 232, 249, 250; of the ‘Old Red,’ 366; of Sheppy, 374, 376; of Connecticut, 415. Fishes, Fossil, ‘Recherches surles poissons fossiles,’ 92, 120, 123, 166, 181, 215, 220, 223, 224, 226, 236, 238, 246, 269, 347, 348, 360, 362, 366; receives Wollaston prize, 235; Monthyon prize, 397; Prix Cuvier, 505. Fish-nest, 699. Fitchburg, lecture at, 782. Florida reefs, 480-485, 486, 487, 490, 651. Forbes, Edward, 337. Forbes, James D., 320, 323, 324. Fossil Alaskan flora, 660. ‘Fossil Arctic flora,’ 657, 658,659. Frazer, 419. Fremont, J. C., 439. Fuchs, 44, 150, 644. Fuegian natives, 736.G.
Galapagos islands, 759, 762. Galloupe, C. G., 773. Geneva, invitation to, 276. Geoffroy St. Hilaire's progressive theory, remarks on, 383. Gibbes, 493. Glacial marks in Scotland, 806, 309, 376; ‘Roads of Glen Roy,’ 308; in Ireland, 310; in New England, 411, 413; in New York, 426; at Halifax, 445; at Brooklyn, 449; at East Boston, 449; on Lake Superior, 464; in Maine, 622; in Brazil, 633, 639; in New York, 663; in Penikese, 774; in western prairies, 664; in South America, 694, 712, 716, 722, 729, 735. Glacial submarine dykes, 448. Glacial phenomena, 439, 445-447, 574; lectures on, 430, 774. Glacial work, gift from king of of Prussia toward, 349; ‘Systeme glaciaire,’ published, 399. ‘Glacial theory,’ 263, 296; opposition from Buch, 264; from Humboldt, 268, 344, 345, 347; Studer's acceptance of, 295; ‘Études sur les glaciers,’ published, 295; Humboldt's later views, 315. Glacier Bay, 723, 725; moraine, 729. Glaciers first researches, 261; renewed, 262, 287; ‘blue bands,’ 292, 322; advance, 294, 352, 365; Hugi's cabin, 294; of the Aar, 298, 317, 319, 349, 357, 364, 396; in the winter, 317; the Rosenlaui, 317; boring, 321; glacier wells, 322; caves of the Viescher, 324; capillary fissures, 351; formation of crevasses, 353; sundials, 355; topographical survey, 355; stratification of neve , 357; new work, 364. Glaciers in Strait of Magellan, 720, 721, 723, 733, 742, 744, 746, 747, 751, 756. Glen Roy, roads of, 308. Goeppingen, 49. Gould, A. A., 436, 466. Gray, Asa, 415, 421, 437, 458, 643. Gray, Francis C., 534; leaves a sum to found a Museum of Comparative Zoology, 559. Gray, William, 559. Greenough, H., 561. Gressly, A., 653. Griffith, Dr., collection of, 419. Grindelwald, 305. Gruithuisen, 44. Guvot, Arnold, 290, 291, 460, 478, 773; on Agassaiz's views, 372.[790]