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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...nineteen, and in the same year the degree of Ph. D., at Erlangen. After the return of a scientific expedition to Brazil he was called upon by Martius to assist in compiling for publication the discoveries relating to fishes, and to write the descriptions for the plates which this work contains. This was his first book. It appeared in 1829. The thorough manner in which he completed the task allotted him placed him at once among the leading naturalists of the day. In 1832 he was honored with a professorship in the College of Neufchatel. His first great work...
...arrival in this country is wellnigh impossible: he was always ready to lecture, sent valuable contributions to magazines, read instructive papers before scientific associations, was busy in the laboratory, observed and tried to solve the secrets of nature, gathered an immense store of specimens, undertook the publication of works requiring an almost incredible amount of labor for completion, and, in short, attempted more work than ten ordinary men could accomplish. Among his published works may be mentioned "Twelve Lectures on Comparative Embryology," "Systeme Glaceale," "Lake Superior," "The Structure of Animal Life," "A Journey to Brazil," "Methods of Study in Natural...
...long time he worked alone, and alone bore the expense of collecting his materials, storing them at different places, of which the cellar of Harvard Hall was one. They were finally purchased by private subscription for the College, $12,000 being paid for them. Additions were made to this nucleus, until it finally assumed such proportions as warranted the further execution of his plan. In 1858 financial measures were first taken to establish the present Museum. Agassiz's untiring efforts to carry out his plan forced from the public an acknowledgment of the worth of that plan, and while others...
...establishment of the Natural History School at Penikese is due to Agassiz; it was to be an auxiliary of the Museum, and was founded for the purpose of enabling students to come into closer contact with Nature, and thus to make more critical observations of her works. Though hardly a year old, it can already be pronounced a success. When the students at this school for the first time came together in the lecture-room, there was a spirit of fault-finding prevalent among them, in consequence of the not over-sumptuous accommodations, but when they had listened...
...that many of us, instead of returning in the fall rested, and braced for a year's work, find hard study even more irksome than before? Is it not because, instead of seeking change and novelty during the vacation, we live very much the same kind of life, the zest and tonic of a little study being removed? The student who spends his time entirely among our fashionable resorts, loafing, and playing the gallant to the same ever-present fair ones that throng our assembly-rooms and concert halls in the winter, becomes, through long nursing of his ennui, even...