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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 13: 1846: Aet. 39. (search)
my own studies by the voyage of Captain Wilkes around the world,—this voyage having been the object of equally exaggerated praise and criticism. I confess that I was agreeably surprised by the richness of the zoological and geological collections; I do not think any European expedition has done more or better; and in some departments, in that of the Crustacea, for example, the collection at Washington surpasses in beauty and number of specimens all that I have seen. It is especially to Dr. Pickering and Mr. Dana that these collections are due. As the expedition did not penetrate to the interior of the continents in tropical regions, the collections of birds and mammals, which fell to the charge of Mr. Peale, are less considerable. Mr. Gray tells me, however, that the botanical collections are very large. More precious, perhaps, than all the collections are the magnificent drawings of mollusks, zoophytes, fishes, and reptiles, painted from life by Mr. Drayton. All these plates, t
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Chapter 14: 1846-1847: Aet. 39-40. (search)
n his work on corals is completed, you can better judge of him. One of these days you will make him a correspondent of the Institute, unless he kills himself with work too early, or is led away by his tendency to generalization. Then there is Gould, author of the malacologic fauna of Massachusetts, and who is now working up the mollusks of the Wilkes Expedition. De Kay and Lea, whose works have long been known, are rather specialists, I should say. I do not yet know Holbrook personally. Pickering, of the Wilkes Expedition, is a well of science, perhaps the most erudite naturalist here. Haldeman knows the fresh-water gasteropods of this country admirably well, and has published a work upon them. Le Conte is a critical entomologist who seems to me thoroughly familiar with what is doing in Europe. In connection with Haldeman he is working up the articulates of the Wilkes Expedition. Wyman, recently made professor at Cambridge, is an excellent comparative anatomist, and the author
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition, Index. (search)
4, 91, 102, 151, 643. Orbe, 118, 666. Ord, collection, 419. Osono, 748. Otway Bay, 741. Owen's Island, 742. P. Packard, A. S., 773. Panama, 764. Paris, Agassiz in, 162, 163, 165, 170, 175, 195. Peale, R., Museum, 419. Peirce, B., 438, 458. Penikese Island, 767; glacial marks, 774. Perty, 90. Philadelphia, 416, 423; Academy of Science, 416; American Philosophical Society, 417. Phyllotaxis, first hint at the law of, 39. Physio-philosophy, 152. Pickering, Charles, 421, 436. Playa Parda Cove, 725. Pleurotomaria, 704, 708. Poissons d'eau douce, 92. Poissons fossiles, 92. Port Famine, 719. Port San Pedro, 747. Portugal, plan for collections in, 585. Possession Bay, 715; moraine, 716. Pourtales, L. F. de, 300, 305, 442, 448, 455, 478, 671, 679, 680, 691, 698, 722, 726, 727, 742, 751, 773. Pourtales, extract from his journal, 304. Prescott, W. H., 458. Princeton, 416. Principles of Zoology, 466, 467. R. Radiates, re