Volume 1

Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence / [Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz].

  • Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
Date:
1885
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence / [Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As will be seen from the list of illustrations, I have also to thank Mrs. John W. Elliot for her valuable aid in that part of the work. On the other side of the water I have had most faithful and efficient collaborators. Mr. Auguste Agassiz, who survived his brother Louis several years, and took the greatest in- terest in preserving whatever concerned his scientific career, confided to my hands many papers and documents belonging to his broth- er’s earlier life. After the death of my brother-in-law, his cousin Mr. Auguste Mayor, _ of Neuchatel, continued the same affectionate service. Without their aid I could not have completed the narrative as it now stands. The friend last named also selected from the glacier of the Aar, at the request of Alex- ander Agassiz, the boulder which now marks his father’s grave. With unwearied patience Mr. Mayor passed hours of toilsome search among the blocks of the moraine near the site of the old “ Hotel des NeuchAtelois,” and
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