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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 1: 1807-1827: to Aet. 20. (search)
Lausanne. choice of profession. medical school of Zurich. life and studies there. University of Heidelbergteen years of age, he went to the medical school of Zurich. Here, for the first time, he came into contact wis own. During the two years passed by Agassiz in Zurich he saw little of society beyond the walls of the uncene of greater beauty. Such of his letters from Zurich as have been preserved have only a home interest. ther were returning on foot, for the vacation, from Zurich to their home which was now in Orbe, where their fagassiz unconsciously exercised over others. From Zurich, Agassiz went to the University of Heidelberg, wher As soon as I told him that I brought a letter from Zurich, he showed me the greatest politeness, offered me bth whom he had formerly studied, had been for me in Zurich. After the opening of the term, when I know these the two brothers separated, Auguste returning from Zurich to Neuchatel, where he entered into business. It c
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 3: 1828-1829: Aet. 21-22. (search)
w me to ask some advice from you, whom I revere as a father, and whose works have been till now my only guide. Five years ago I was sent to the medical school at Zurich. After the first few lectures there in anatomy and zoology I could think of nothing but skeletons. In a short time I had learned to dissect, and had made for myself a small collection of skulls of animals from different classes. I passed two years in Zurich, studying whatever I could find in the Museum, and dissecting all the animals I could procure. I even sent to Berlin at this time for a monkey in spirits of wine, that I might compare the nervous system with that of man. I spent alllmost the whole winter in the anatomical laboratory. The following summer I attended the lectures of Leuckart on zoology, and those of Bronn on fossils. When at Zurich, the longing to travel some day as a naturalist had taken possession of me, and at Heidelberg this desire only increased. My frequent visits to the Museum at Fr
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 4: 1829-1830: Aet. 22-23. (search)
or the wedding. If you will recollect the overturning of the paternal mansion when your outfit was preparing for Bienne, Zurich, and other places, you can form an idea of the state of our rooms above and below, large and small, when the work of the im work for several weeks in which my presence would be unnecessary. If there is a considerable collection of fossils at Zurich, I shall leave him there till he has finished his work, and then he will rejoin me; all that depends upon circumstances. me knowledge of anatomy, that I might see for myself where the truth was. During two years spent in the Medical School of Zurich, I applied myself exclusively to the study of anatomy, physiology, and zoology, under the guidance of Professors Schinz acation of such objects as I should have an opportunity of examining in nature. After spending in this way two years in Zurich, I was attracted to Heidelberg by the great reputation of its celebrated teachers, Tiedemann, Leuckart, Bronn, and others
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 5: 1830-1832: Aet. 23-25. (search)
Chapter 5: 1830-1832: Aet. 23-25. Year at home. leaves home for Paris. delays on the road. cholera. arrival in Paris. first visit to Cuvier. Cuvier's kindness. his death. poverty in Paris. home letters concerning embarrassments and about his work. singular dream. On the 4th of December, 1830, Agassiz left Munich, in company with Mr. Dinkel, and after a short stay at St. Gallen and Zurich, spent in looking up fossil fishes and making drawings of them, they reached Concise on the 30th of the same month. Anxiously as his return was awaited at home, we have seen that his father was not without apprehension lest the presence of the naturalist, with artist, specimens, and apparatus, should be an inconvenience in the quiet parsonage. But every obstacle yielded to the joy of reunion, and Agassiz was soon established with his painter, his fossils, and all his scientific outfit, under the paternal roof. Thus quietly engaged in his ichthyological studies, carrying on
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 17: 1852-1855: Aet. 45-48. (search)
d geological succession of animals. resignation of Charleston professorship. propositions from Zurich. letter to Oswald Heer. decision to remain in Cambridge. letters to James D. Dana, S. S. Hald In May of that year he received an invitation to the recently established University of Zurich, in Switzerland. His acceptance was urged upon the ground of patriotism as well as on that of a liberals in the gift of the old world could divert him from this settled purpose. The proposition from Zurich was not official, but came through a friend and colleague, for whom he had the deepest sympathy hat you will withdraw from any action which might bring me a direct call to the professorship in Zurich. I have decided to remain here for an indefinite time, under the conviction that I shall exert vise my former identifications in the light of a larger insight. Remember me kindly to all my Zurich friends, and especially to Arnold Escher. . . . Agassiz's increasing and at last wholly unma
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
brother on the ice, 5; goes to Bienne, 6; college of Bienne, 6, 7; vacations, 8; own sketch of plans of study at fourteen, 12; school and college note-books, 13,14; distaste for commercial life, 14; goes to Lausanne, 15; to the medical school at Zurich, 15; copies books on natural history, 16, 148; first excursion in the Alps, 16, 17; offer of adoption by a Genevese gentleman, 17, 18; goes to Heidelberg, 19; student life, 22; described in Braun's letters, 25, 27; at Carlsruhe, 30, 33; illness, ; receives the Prix Cuvier, 505; lectures at Smithsonian Institution; made regent of, 506; growth of collections, 507; their sale, 508; illness at Charleston, 508; relation of living to fossil animals, 510; return to the north, 512; invitation to Zurich, 513, and refusal, 517; circularon collecting fishes, 518, and response, 519; new house in Cambridge, 523; manner of study, 524; weekly meetings, 525; renewed lectures, 525; school for young ladies opened, 526, and success, 527; courses of lectur
The Daily Dispatch: November 14, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Threatening secession. (search)
Republicanism in Europe. The Zurich correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce refers to the little impression made upon the public mind of Europe by Mazzini's answer to the letter of Tumaleio, the new Dictator, In which he was requested voluntarily to leave the country. In that address Mazzini says: "I have made the greatest sacrifice which I ever could make, when out of love for freedom and concord I stopped the apostolate of my creed, and declared that I did acknowledge the monarchy, not from respect of ministers and monarchs, but for-the majority of the Italian people, ready to support it, if it would establish the unity of the country; and that, if once I should feel bound to raise against the old colors, I should publicly and candidly make it known to friends and foes, I cannot act otherwise. If lawful men, like you, believe my words, it is your duty to convince my adversaries that the intolerance which they exercise is the only cause of anarchy which at pres
The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
Appointments by Lincoln. --James Watson Webb, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Brazil. Thomas H. Nelson, of Indiana, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Chill. Allen A. Burton, of Kentucky, to be Minister Resident of the United States to Bogota. George E. Wiss, of Maryland, to be Consul of the United States at Amsterdam. Timothy C. Smith, of Vermont, to be Consul of the United States at Odessa. Charles L. Bernays, of Missouri, to be Consul of the United States at Zurich. John D. Arnold, of Illinois, to be Consul of the United States at St. Petersburg. John H. Peters, of South Carolina, to be Consul of the United States at Tunis. Henry W. Lord, of Michigan, to be Consul of the United States at Manchester, Joseph & Nunes, of California, to be Commercial Agent of the United States at La Fas, Lower California.
The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1860., [Electronic resource], High water. (search)
Count Cavour. The Zurich correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce refers to the emphatic declaration of Count Cavour before the Sardinian Parliament, that neither in any public act, nor in any private negotiation, nor in any conference or convention, was a demand or even an allusion ever made that Piedmont should be required to cede a foot's breadth of Italian territory. This declaration does not shed any new light on the much talked of matter of another cession to France. Count Cavour, says the correspondent, like all diplomatists, knows how to disguise truth; his assurances are not worth a straw. Last year he gave just as positive assurances in regard to Nice and Savoy.
The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], The London times on the war. (search)
cannon. Do the Northern States really belong to the New World, or are they only a bit of the Old World, with all its pride, its bigotry, and its tyranny, stranded on the Western shore of the Atlantic? The advice we give them is what they have taught us before, and we only say to them, as many a son may say to his father, "Practice what you teach." Let the Northern States "accept the situation," as we did eighty years ago up on their ownsoll; as Austria did two years ago at Villafranca and Zurich. Let them count the cost before they march forth to drive half a million armed men a thousand miles acrose their own country into the Gulf of Mexico. Let them consider whether they can do what Napoleon could not do in the plentitude of his power, with many times their number, their stores, their credit, and, above all, their military skill and experience, his school of Generals, and his supply of veterans. What they purpose to do and be, is not only to be as good as the Southerners,
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