Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1887. Seventh Edition. 794 total, 2-vol. set, illus., index, boards worn and soiled, spines quite worn, some pages have edge tears, hole in front flyleaf v.1. Agassiz was one of the most important naturalists in the United States in the nineteenth century, greatly influential and the author of a number of important works. This book contains correspondence between Agassiz and other great men of science, including Alexander von Humboldt, Georges Cuvier, Charles Lyell, and Richard Owen, and offers an intriguing insight into the life and times of this important paleontologist. Condition: fair.

Keywords: A. von Humboldt, Georges Cuvier, Charles Lyell, Richard Owen, Paleontologist, Hugh Miller, Murchison, Pourtales, Louis Agassiz

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