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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 21 1865 1868 58 -61 . (search)
Chapter 21: 1865-1868: Aet. 58-61.
Letter to his mother announcing journey to Brazil.
sketch of journey.
kindness of the Emperor.
liberality of the Brazilian government.
correspondence with Charles Sumner.
letter to his mother at close of Brazil journey.
letter from Martius concerning journey in Brazil.--return to Cambridge.
lectures in Boston and New York.
summer at Nahant.
letter to Professor Peirce on the Survey of Boston Harbor.
death of his mother.
illness.
correspondence with Oswald Heer.
summer journey in the West.
Cornell University.
letter from Longfellow.
The next important event in the life of Agassiz, due in the first instance to his failing health, which made some change of scene and climate necessary, is best announced by himself in the following letter.
To his mother. Cambridge, March 22, 1865.
dear mother,—You will shed tears of joy when you read this, but such tears are harmless.
Listen, then, to what has happened.
A few weeks ago
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 22 1868 1871 61 -64 . (search)
Chapter 22: 1868-1871: Aet. 61-64.
New subscription to Museum.
additional buildings.
arrangement of New collections.
dredging expedition on board the Bibb.
address at the Humboldt Centennial.
attack on the brain.
Suspension of work.
working force at the Museum.
New accessions.-letter from Professor Sedgwick.
letter from Professor Deshayes.
restored health.
Hassler voyage proposed.
acceptance.
scientific preparation for the voyage.
Agassiz returned to Cambridge to findusand dollars for an addition to the building, and private subscriptions had doubled this sum, in order to provide for the preservation and arrangement of the new collections.
In acknowledging this gift of the Legislature in his Museum Report for 1868 Agassiz says:—
While I rejoice in the prospect of this new building, as affording the means for a complete exhibition of the specimens now stored in our cellars and attics and encumbering every room of the present edifice, I yet can hardly loo