Letters to Harriott Pinckney Rutledge Holbrook, 1853-1854.

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Letters to Harriott Pinckney Rutledge Holbrook, 1853-1854.

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Letter (1853 Aug. 11) from Davis at Greenfield, Mass. to Mrs. Holbrook, care of Prof. Agassiz, Cambridge, Mass., discusses "a delightful time at Plymouth" and mutual friends and acquaintances (including Louis Agassiz). Another letter (1854 April 3) from Davis at Greenfield to Mrs. Holbrook concerns the lingering winter weather in his area, the Holbrooks' approaching "summer migration," literary topics, and a book on the origin of Christianity by Hennell. Davis also inquires about any "new varieties of fish that have had the happiness and honor of being caught, bottled, and catalogued by the Doctor."

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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...

Hennell, Charles Christian

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Davis, George T. (George Thomas), 1810-1871

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Massachusetts lawyer and politician. George T. Davis graduated from Harvard in 1829, and in 1832 he began to practice law in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Davis was a Massachusetts state Senator from 1839 to 1840 and U.S. Congressman from 1851 to 1853. Davis was a friend of Dr. John Edwards Holbrook, physician and naturalist of Charleston, South Carolina, and his wife, Harriott Pinckney Rutledge Holbrook. The Holbrooks often spent their summers in Massachusetts, where they had many friends and rela...

Holbrook, John Edwards, 1794-1871

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A physician and founder of the Medical College of South Carolina (1824), Holbrook was also considered the most important zoologist of his time, specializing in the study of American reptiles and fishes. From the description of ALS : to Childs & Peterson, Philadelphia, [1858] May 9. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122525066 Beaufort and Charleston, S.C. zoologist and physician. Holbrook spent much of his early life in Massachusetts, graduating from B...

Holbrook, Harriott Pinckney, 1802-1862

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