Papers of Thayer Expedition to Brazil, 1865-1866 (bulk).

James, William, 1842-1910

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William James (born January 11, 1842, New York City – died August 26, 1910, Tamworth, New Hampshire) was the preeminent American philosopher of his day. His reinterpretations of psychology and pragmatism were among his major contributions to world thought, and his work continues to reward study and inspire analysis. ...

Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology

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The Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) at Harvard University is a center for research and education focused on the comparative relationships of animal life. The MCZ was founded in 1859 through the efforts of zoologist Louis Agassiz; the museum used to be referred to as "The Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology" after its founder. Agassiz designed the collection to illustrate the variety and comparative relationships of animal life. The MCZ one of three natural-history research museums 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, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907

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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, educator and college president, was born in Boston, December 5, 1822 and married the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz in 1850. She was an educational reformer, member of the Woman's Education Association, but never an advocate of women's suffrage or of co-education. ECA administered the Agassiz School for Girls from 1855 to 1863. She was one of the managers of the program for the Private Collegiate Instruction for Women (also known as the Harvard Annex); was p...

Ticknor, George, 1791-1871

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George Ticknor (1791-1871), educator and author, served as the first Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard from 1817 to 1835. After his arrival at Harvard, Ticknor became disenchanted with the school curriculum, characterizing the College as a well-disciplined high school, and began an effort to reorganize the College around four main goals: the division of students in courses according to academic proficiency and merit; the division of the ...

Thayer, Nathaniel, 1808-1883

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Mayor, Auguste, 1815-1904

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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...

Hunnewell, Walter.

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Thayer Expedition (1865-1866)

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Henshaw, Samuel, 1852-1941

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Henshaw was an entomologist and served as Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University from 1912 to 1927. From the description of Additional Letters from various correspondents, 1849-1931. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 83225093 From the guide to the Additional letters from various correspondents, 1849-1931., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Gilbert White (1720-1793) was a pioneering British naturalist...

Copeland, Edward

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Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, 1825-1891

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Hartt, Charles Frederick, 1840-1878

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First professor of Geology at Cornell University. From the description of Charles Frederick Hartt papers, 1863-1874. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63937372 Louis Agassiz (1807-1873, APS 1843) was a zoologist and geologist. A student of Georges Cuvier, Agassiz was renown for his six-volume work Poissons fossils, a study of more than 1,700 ancient fish. Equally important was his Ètudes sur les glaciers (1840). In 1845 Agassiz moved to the Unite...

St. John, Orestes Henry.

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Andrews, John Albion.

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Bellows, F. W. G.

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Thomas G. Cary

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California pioneer who later returned to Cambridge, Mass. From the description of Thomas G. Cary papers, 1885. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130983 ...

Saraiva, José Antônio, 1823-1895

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Ward, Tom

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Ware, H.

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Gray, William, fl. 1826

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Gray was a painter in Salem, Massachusetts and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. From the description of Ledger, 1774-1814. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122460172 ...