CHAPTER X. 



1845- 



" MONOGRAPHIE DES MYES," 1842-1845 THE " NOMENCLATOR ZOOLO- 

 GICUS," 1842-1845 " BlBLIOGRAPHIA ZOOLOGL^E ET GEOLOGI.E " 

 " ICONOGRAPHIE DES COQUILLES TERTIAIRES RliPUTEES IDENTIQUES 

 AVEC LES ESPECES VlVANTES," ETC. - - THE TWO TRANSLATIONS OF 

 SOWERBY'S " MINERAL CONCHOLOGY OF GREAT BRITAIN " ACTUAL 

 MERCANTILE VALUE OF AGASSIZ'S PUBLICATIONS AGASSIZ'S FAMILY 

 COME TO HIS HELP GREAT CREDIT DUE TO NEUCHATEL AND ITS 

 INHABITANTS AGASSIZ'S LAST SERIES OF LECTURES: "NOTICE SUR 

 LA GEOGRAPHIE DES ANIMAUX "-- INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP WITH JULES 

 PlCTET DE LA RlVE AGASSIZ'S LAST VlSIT TO THE AAR GLACIER - 

 THE MEETING OF THE HELVETIC SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES AT 

 GENEVA, AUGUST, 1845 A LETTER TO PICTET, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL 

 REMARKS BIOGRAPHY OF AGASSIZ BY PICTET AGASSIZ RETURNS 

 ALL THE SPECIMENS BORROWED FOR HIS GREAT PAL^ONTOLOGICAL 

 WORKS. 



THE year 1845 was spent mainly in finishing the 

 publication of works more or less advanced, and in 

 making a sort of scientific "liquidation," or clearing up. 

 The " Monographic des Myes," a quarto volume, with 

 an atlas of ninety-four well-executed plates, begun in 

 1842, an excellent and very useful work, containing a 

 number of new, well-defined genera, and which has 

 since been used constantly in conchology, was com- 

 pleted. Alcide d'Orbigny criticised several of the new 



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