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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 14: 1846-1847: Aet. 39-40. (search)
America. He is a man of science in the best sense; admirable both as regards his knowledge and his activity. He is the pillar of the Philadelphia Academy. The chemists and physicists, again, form another utilitarian class of men in this country. As with many of them purely scientific work is not their sole object, it is difficult for an outsider to distinguish between the clever manipulators and those who have higher aims. . The mathematicians have also their culte, dating back to Bowditch, the translator of the Mecanique celeste, and the author of a work on practical navigation. He died in Boston, where they are now erecting a magnificent monument to his memory. Mr. Peirce, professor at Cambridge, is considered here the equal of our great mathematicians. It is not for me, who cannot do a sum in addition, to pretend to a judgment in the matter. Though Agassiz was no mathematician, and Peirce no naturalist, they soon found that their intellectual aims were the same, and
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
ids, 489. Bibb, U. S. Coast Survey steamer, 453, 671. Bibliographia Zoologica, 335. Bienne, college at, 6, 7. Bischoff, 29. Blake, J. H., 691. Bombinator obstetricans, observations on, 33, 35, 36, 41. Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, 355, 363, 378, 379. Booth, 419. Borja Bay, 721. Boston, 401, 430. Boston, East, 442; laboratory, 443; observations upon the geology of, with reference to the glacial theory, 449, 450. Boston Harbor, 648. Botany, questions in, 40. Bowditch, 438. Braun, Alexander, 24, 25, 31, 67, 89, 94, 143, 179, 397, 643. Brazil, visit to, 625; freshwater fauna of, 633, 638, 640, 646; glacier phenomena, 638. Brewster, Sir, David, 473. Brongniart, 176. Bronn, 29, 48; his collection now in Cambridge, 30. Brown-Sequard, Dr., 782. Buch, Leopold von, 201, 256, 264, 265, 272, 274, 345. Buckland, Dr., invites Agassiz to England, 232; acts as his guide to fossil fishes, 250; to glacier tracks, 306; a convert to glacial theory, 307