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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 13: 1846: Aet. 39. (search)
tion in the United States; there are also the fossil remains and the animals described by Harlan, by Godman, and by Hayes, and the fossils described by Conrad and Morton. Dr. Morton's unique collection of human skulls is also to be found in Philadelphia. Imagine a series of six hundred skulls, mostly Indian, of all the tribes whDr. Morton's unique collection of human skulls is also to be found in Philadelphia. Imagine a series of six hundred skulls, mostly Indian, of all the tribes who now inhabit or formerly inhabited America. Nothing like it exists elsewhere. This collection alone is worth a journey to America. Dr. Morton has had the kindness to give me a copy of his great illustrated work representing all the types of his collection. Quite recently a generous citizen of Philadelphia has enriched this muDr. Morton has had the kindness to give me a copy of his great illustrated work representing all the types of his collection. Quite recently a generous citizen of Philadelphia has enriched this museum with the fine collection of birds belonging to the Duke of Rivoli. He bought it for 37,000 francs, and presented it to his native city. The number of fossil remains comprised in these collections is very considerable; mastodons especially, and fossils of the cretaceous and jurassic deposits. . . . Imagine that all this i
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 14: 1846-1847: Aet. 39-40. (search)
for the utilitarian tendency thus impressed on the work of American geologists will retard their progress. With us, on the contrary, researches of this kind constantly tend to assume a more and more scientific character. Still, the body of American geologists forms, as a whole, a most respectable contingent. The names of Charles T. Jackson, James Hall, Hitchcock, Henry and William Rogers (two brothers), have long been familiar to European science. After the geologists, I would mention Dr. Morton, of Philadelphia, well known as the author of several papers upon fossils, and still better by his great work upon the indigenous races of 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
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
cantile Library Association, meeting of, 411. Meril, the chalets of, 325, 331. Michahelles, 55, 109. Micraster, 710. Miller, Hugh, 367, 470; on Footprints of the Creator, 471, 476; on Scenes and Legends, 471; on resemblance of Scotch and Swiss, 472; on First Impressions, 472; on Asterolepis, 473; on Monticularia, 475. Mississippi, fishes in the, 521. Mollusks, inner moulds of shells of 283. Monkeys, 499, 501. Monte Video, 711. Monticularia, 475. More, 88. Morton, S. G., 417, 437; collection of skulls, 417. Motier, birthplace of Agassiz, 1; inscription to Agassiz, 2. Motley, J. L., 459. Mount Burney, 741. Mount Sarmiento, 741. Mount Tarn, 720. Munich, 44, 46, 51, 52, 55, 89, 94, 143, 150. Murchison, Sir R., on glacial theory, 339, 340, 468; accepts it, 341; sends his Russian Old Red fishes, 367; on Principles of Zoology, 467; on tertiary geology, 467. Murchison, Sir R., 562, 666. Museum of Comparative Zoology, first beginning, 462; cora