CHAPTER IX. 



1843-1844. 

 " RECHERCHES SUR LES POISSONS FOSSILES," 1833-1843 REVIEW OF IT 



BY JULES PlCTET DE LA RlVE DR. A. GiJNTHER's OPINION AGAS- 



siz's ERRORS WITH THE EOCENE FOSSIL FISHES OF CLARIS (SWITZER- 

 LAND) THE PART TAKEN BY COLLABORATORS IN THE " POISSONS 

 FOSSILES" ANOTHER VISIT TO THE GLACIER OF THE AAR--THE 

 MEETING OF THE HELVETIC SOCIETY AT LAUSANNE, JULY, 1843- 

 AGASSIZ'S HOSPITALITY AT NEUCHATEL FALSE POSITION OF HIS 

 SECRETARY, DESOR, AND HIS ASSISTANT, VOGT SCIENTIFIC LIFE IN 

 NEUCHATEL " MONOGRAPHIES DES POISSONS FOSSILES DU VIEUX 

 GRES ROUGE," 1844 - - THE GEOLOGIST AND STONECUTTER, HUGH 

 MILLER " HISTOIRENATURELLE DES POISSONS D'EAU DOUCE " KARL 

 VOGT LEAVES AGASSIZ EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF THE GEOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY OF FRANCE AT CHAMBERY (SAVOY) FAILURE OF NICOLET'S 

 LITHOGRAPHIC ESTABLISHMENT DINKEL LEAVES NEUCHATEL ILL- 

 NESS OF GRESSLY. 



THE publication of the " Recherches sur les Poissons 

 fossiles ' continued through the ten years from 1833 

 to 1843, when the eighteenth and last part or " livrai- 

 son ' was issued, with " Additions a la preface," dated 



I 



Neuchatel, May, 1843, which may be considered as the 

 last pages of that great work. It is a true monument 

 to the science of palaeontology, and to speak of it with 

 authority requires such special study of ichthyology, 

 that the only way to give an idea of its value is to quote 

 one of the very few men able to speak of it with " con- 



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