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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 15: 1847-1850: Aet. 40-43. (search)
l Almanac, since the kindly presence of the former was constantly invoked as friend and counselor in the scientific departments, while the latter had his residence in Cambridge, and was as intimately associated with the interests of Harvard as if he had been officially connected with the university. A more agreeable set of men, or one more united by personal relations and intellectual aims, it would have been difficult to find. In connection with these names, those of Prescott, Ticknor, Motley, and Holmes also arise most naturally, for the literary men and scholars of Cambridge and Boston were closely united; and if Emerson, in his country home at Concord, was a little more withdrawn, his influence was powerful in the intellectual life of the whole community, and acquaintance readily grew to friendship between him and Agassiz. Such was the pleasant and cultivated circle into which Agassiz was welcomed in the two cities, which became almost equally his home, and where the friendsh
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 18: 1855-1860: Aet. 48-53. (search)
tant members: At one end of the table sat Longfellow, florid, quiet, benignant, soft-voiced, a most agreeable rather than a brilliant talker, but a man upon whom it was always pleasant to look,—whose silence was better than many another man's conversation. At the other end sat Agassiz, robust, sanguine, animated, full of talk, boy-like in his laughter. The stranger who should have asked who were the men ranged along the sides of the table would have heard in answer the names of Hawthorne, Motley, Dana, Lowell, Whipple, Peirce, the distinguished mathematician, Judge Hoar, eminent at the bar and in the cabinet, Dwight, the leading musical critic of Boston for a whole generation, Sumner, the academic champion of freedom, Andrew, the great War Governor of Massachusetts, Dr. Howe, the philanthropist, William Hunt, the painter, with others not unworthy of such company. We may complete the list and add the name of Holmes himself, to whose presence the club owed so much of its wit and wisd
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
, 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; coral collection begun, 487; gift from pupils, 530; idea of museum, 555-559; publications, 555; Mr. Gray's legacy, 559; nam