Louis Agassiz letters and other material.

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Louis Agassiz letters and other material.

Papers of Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American zoologist, geologist, naturalist and educator, including 30 letters written by Agassiz, two written by James Barnard, one written by Alexander Agassiz, and three Agassiz memorial announcements dealing with his geological and zoological activities, especially the correct methods to be used in studying natural history with emphasis on "characters and affinities" and references to the Revolutions of 1848.

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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...