Word: copper
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Presently, his brother-in-law, Mr. Shaw, acquired an interest in a copper property at Lake Superior and interested Mr. Agassiz in this property. Difficulties in the management arose, and Mr. Agassiz went to Calumet, in the upper peninsula of Michigan, with his wife and oldest child, George, and lived there for two years, organizing the work and developing the mine, putting in new machinery and generally getting everything into good order...
...principal mines of California and collected specimens for the Museum at Cambridge. Upon his return in 1860, he became assistant in Zoology at the Museum, of which he took charge during his father's absence in Brazil. From 1866 to 1869 he was superintendent of the Calumet and Hecla Copper Company, which he developed from a state of insolvency into the most noted copper mine in the world. During the years 1869 and 1870 he carefully inspected the museums of England, France, Germany, and Scandinavia, after which he returned to his duties in Cambridge, and succeeded his father as curator...
...director of the Anderson School of Natural History on Penikese Island in 1873, and in 1875 was a member of an expedition to the west coast of South America, for the purpose of inspecting the copper mines of Peru and Chile. While there he made a minute examination of the shores of Lake Titicaca, and collected many Peruvian antiquities which he deposited in the Peabody Museum...
GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. Remarks on the Geology of Casco Bay, Maine. Mr. F. H. Lahee. "Glaciers of the Lower Copper River Valley, Alaska." Mr. D. S. Birkett. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
...accompany an expedition to China during the coming year obtained some 7000 or 8000 specimens of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes and insects. The collection of Dr. S. Merrill, gathered by him in Palestine was given to the Museum shortly before his death. From Miss Cornelia Prime were received copper plates and original blocks, together with other memorabilia, which were used by her brother, the late Temple Prime L.'53, an authority on fresh-water shells. A series of 500 specimens of butterflies and moths is the gift of J. L. Gardner '58. This includes many species of great beauty...