Calvert E. Norland letter : Santa Ana, Calif., to E.O. Essig : ALS, 1938 Dec. 19.

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Calvert E. Norland letter : Santa Ana, Calif., to E.O. Essig : ALS, 1938 Dec. 19.

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Concerns the possible history of ownership of this pre-publication copy of vol. 1, part I (Essay on classification) of Contributions to the natural history of the United States of America (Boston, 1857), presented to John L. LeConte by the author, Louis Agassiz. Letter was originally enclosed with this book which Norland sent to Essig, his former professor, as a Christmas gift, and speculates on the additional inscription of Newton B. Pierce, plant pathologist and friend of Agassiz.

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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...

Norland, Calvert E.

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Pierce, Newton Barris

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Essig, E. O. (Edward Oliver), 1884-

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Entomologist. Born 1884 in Indiana, B.A. (1909) and M.A. (1912) degrees from Pomona College. Secretary to the California State Horticulture Commission (1911-1914); faculty member at UC Berkeley. Studied aphids. Member, Fellow, and Research Associate of the California Academy of Sciences. Also served as Academy's Corresponding Secretary (1948-1953). Died on November 23, 1964. From the description of Edward Oliver Essig papers. (California Academy of Sciences)....