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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 7 1834 1837 27 -30 . (search)
Chapter 7: 1834-1837: Aet. 27-30.
First visit to England.
reception by scientific men.
work on fossil fishes there.
liberality of English naturalists.
first relations with American science.
farther correspondence with Humboldt.
secois sojourn at Bex, Agassiz's intellect and imagination had been deeply stirred by the glacial phenomena.
In the winter of 1837, on his return to Neuchatel, he investigated anew the slopes of the Jura, and found that the facts there told the same stoarches were based, are sketched in the Preface to his Poissons Fossiles, so his opening address to the Helvetic Society in 1837 unfolds the glacial period as a whole, much as he saw it at the close of his life, after he had studied the phenomena on these subjects their special study, did Agassiz meet with discouragements.
The letters of his beloved mentor, Humboldt, in 1837, show how much he regretted that any part of his young friend's energy should be diverted from zoology, to a field of inve
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 9 1837 1839 30 -32 . (search)
Chapter 9: 1837-1839: Aet. 30-32.
Invitation to Professorships at Geneva and Lausanne.– death of his father.
establishment of lithographic Press at Neuchatel.
researches upon structure of Mollusks.
internal casts of shells.
glacial explorations.
views of Buckland.
relations with Arnold Guyot.
their work together in the Alps.
letter to Sir Philip Egerton concerning glacial work.
summer of 1839.
publication of Etudes sur les glaciers.
Although Agassiz's daring treatment of citizens of his adopted town expressed their appreciation of his loyalty to them in a warm letter of thanks, begging, at the same time, his acceptance of the sum of six thousand francs, payable by installments during three years.
The summer of 1837 was a sad one to Agassiz and to his whole family; his father died at Concise, carried off by a fever while still a comparatively young man. The pretty parsonage, to which they were so much attached, passed into other hands, and thenceforward the