Louis Agassiz letters, 1867-1874.

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Louis Agassiz letters, 1867-1874.

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Letters from Agassiz to Edwin Percy Whipple concerning Agassiz' interests in a museum and new photographic processes; to Andrew Dickson White concerning the need for adequate university instruction in the United States and making recommendations for faculty appointments at Cornell University; letters to Dom Pedro II; also includes a reprint of the account "Agassiz' Last Lecture at Cornell."

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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...

Cornell University

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Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886

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American essayist and critic. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : Boston, to Harper and Brothers, 1858 Mar. 5 and 18-1878 Apr. 1 and 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270588778 Edwin Percy Whipple was an influential 19th century American literary critic and lecturer. A prolific reader, he worked at several disparate jobs while publishing critical essays in diverse periodicals. He gained the reputation as one of the most important young critics of his gener...

White, Andrew Dickson

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