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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 23 1871 1872 64 -65 . (search)
Chapter 23: 1871-1872: Aet. 64-65.
Sailing of the Hassler.
Sargassum fields.-dredging at Barbadoes.
from the West Indies to Rio de Janeiro.
Monte Video.
quarantine.
glacial traces in the Bay of Monte Video.
the Gulf of Mathias.
dredging off Gulf of St. George.
dredging off Cape Virgens.
possession Bay.
salt pool.
moraine.
Sandy point.
cruise through the straits.
scenery.
wind storm.
Borja Bay.
glacier Bay.
visit to the glacier.
Chorocua Bay.
The vessel was to have started in August, but, owing to various delays in her completion, she was not ready for sea until the late autumn.
She finally sailed on December 4, 1871, on a gray afternoon, which ushered in the first snow-storm of the New England winter.
Bound for warmer skies, she was, however, soon in the waters of the Gulf Stream, where the work of collecting began in the fields of Sargassum, those drifting, wide-spread expanses of loose sea-weed carrying a countless population, lilliputian in size,
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 24 1872 65 . (search)
Chapter 24: 1872: Aet. 65.
Picnic in Sholl Bay.
Fuegians.
Smythe's Channel.
comparison of glacial features with those of the Strait of Magellan.
Ancud.-Port of San Pedro.
Bay of Concepcion.
three weeks in Talcahuana.
collections.
geology.
land journey to Santiago.
scenes along the road.
report on glacial features to Mr. Peirce.
arrival at Santiago.
election as foreign Associate of the Institute of France.
Valparaiso.
the Galapagos.
geological and Zoological features.
arrival at San Francisco.
The next day forces were divided.
The vessel put out into the Strait again for sounding and dredging, while Agassiz, with a smaller party, landed in Sholl Bay.
Here, after having made a fire and pitched a tent in which to deposit wraps, provisions etc., the company dispersed in various directions along the shore, geologizing, botanizing, and collecting.
Agassiz was especially engaged in studying the structure of the beach itself.
He found that the ridge of the b
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 25 1872 1873 65 -66 . (search)
Chapter 25: 1872-1873: Aet. 65-66.
Return to Cambridge.
summer school proposed.
interest of Agassiz.
gift of Mr. Anderson.
prospectus of Penikese school.
difficulties.
opening of school.
summer work.
close of school.
last course of lectures at Museum.
lecture before board of Agriculture.
illness.
death.
place of Burial.
In October, 1872, Agassiz returned to Cambridge.
To arrange the collections he had brought back, to write a report of his journey and its results, to pass the next summer quietly at his Nahant laboratory, continuing his work on the Sharks and Skates, for which he had brought home new and valuable material, seemed the natural sequence of his year of travel.
But he found a new scheme of education on foot; one for which he had himself given the first impulse, but which some of his younger friends had carefully considered and discussed in his absence, being confident that with his help it might be accomplished.
The plan was to establish a summ