Original zoological drawings and plates, 1830-1880 (bulk)

Hassler Expedition (1871-1872)

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The Hassler Expedition was composed of a group of scientists invited to accompany the new U.S. Coast Survey Steamer, Hassler, when she sailed from the east coast to her assignment on the coast of California. Louis Agassiz led the team of scientists. Invitations were offered with the stipulation that the US government would not be responsible for scientist’s expenses, and that the ship would make stops for scientific purposes when possible, but at such a rate not to impact their timely arrival at...

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Agassiz, Alexander, 1835-1910

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Alexander Agassiz(1835-1910), marine biologist, oceanographer, and industrial entrepreneur, was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, the son of Louis Agassiz. In 1860 Agassiz began a lifetime occupation of administering the business affairs of the Harvard museum, a task made difficult by his father's penchant for excessive collecting and expenditures. After Louis's death in 1873, Agassiz succeeded to the directorship of the Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology and completed the physical...

Weber, C., illustrator.

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Dinkel, Joseph.

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Diekmann, illustrator.

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Burkhardt, Jacques, d. 1867.

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Born ca. 1808, Jacques Burkhardt was Louis Agassiz's personal and principal artist. Having studied in Munich and Rome, the Swiss painter served as Agassiz's full-time artist in Neuchatel in the early 1840s. After Agassiz left for America, Burkhardt re-united with him in New York in 1847 and spent most of his career drawing under the MCZ founder's supervision. Burkhardt's turtle illustrations for Agassiz's quintessential work, "Contributions to the natural history of the United States" (4 v., 185...

Wallinger, illustrator.

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Albatross Expedition.

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Delay, illustrator.

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Blake, James Henry, 1845-1941

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Blake studied under Louis Agassiz at the Lawrence Scientific School beginning in 1864 and three years later was hired as a student-assistant at the Museum of Comparative Zoology to help Agassiz organize the Thayer Expedition collections. By 1868 he was working in the MCZ's Conchology Department, drawing anatomical features of freshwater mollusks, and later served as zoological artist on the Hassler Expedition (1871-1872). From the description of Scrapbook of clippings, photographs, c...