Author:Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807–1873)

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Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history, living in United States from 1846; Professor of Zoölogy and Geology in the Lawrence Scientific School

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Works

• A journey to Switzerland, (1833) (external scan)
• "Agassiz's Natural History" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (3) (January, 1858)
• An Introduction to the Study of Natural History (1847) (external scan)
• Principles of Zoology for the use of Schools and Colleges, (1848) with Augustus Addison Gould (external scan)
• On the principles of classification in the animal kingdom (1850) (external scan)
• Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation and Animals, compared with those of other and similar regions, (1850) (external scan)
• Report on the Florida Reefs (1850) (external scan)
• Outlines of comparative physiology for the use of schools and colleges (1851) (external scan)
• Bibliographia Zoologiæ Et Geologiæ (1853) (external scan)
• Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America (1857–1862) (external scan),
• "Ice-Period in America" in The Atlantic Monthly, 14 (81) (July, 1864)
• "Physical History of the Valley of the Amazons (Part 1)" in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (105) (July, 1866)
• "Physical History of the Valley of the Amazons (Part 2)" in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (106) (August, 1866)
• Geological Sketches (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866) (external scan)
• A Journey in Brazil (1868) (external scan)
• Essay on classification, De l'espèce et de la classification en zoologie (Trans. Felix Vogeli. 1869) (external scan)
• Methods of Study in Natural History (1869) (external scan)
• Geological Sketches (Second Series) (Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1876) (external scan)
• Scientific Results of A Journey In Brazil. (1876) (external scan)
• Methods of Study in Natural History (1887) (external scan)
• Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz (1913) (external scan)

Works about Agassiz

• "Professor Louis Agassiz" by Richard Bliss in Popular Science Monthly, 4 (March 1874)
• "Agassiz, Jean Louis Rudolphe," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Agassiz, Jean Louis Rudolphe," in The Biographical Dictionary of America, Boston: American Biographical Society (1906)

• "Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe," by Horace Bolingbroke Woodward in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Agassiz, Jean Louis Rudolph," in American Medical Biographies, (ed.) by Howard A. Kelly & Walter L. Burrage, Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Co. (1920)
• Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (1885), (external scans (multiple parts): vol. 1, vol. 2)