194 LOUIS AGASSIZ. [CHAP. xxn. 



observer, a good practical geologist, and well posted 

 in osteology and comparative anatomy, and he sent 

 to the Museum large and valuable collections of mam- 

 mals, birds, reptiles, fishes, molluscs, and radiates, 

 besides palaeontological specimens from Carthagena, 

 the Atrato River, Panama, San Miguel, Cupica Bay, 

 and Napipi River. 



Dr. Franz Steindachner, attracted by the magnificent 

 collection of fishes, came to Cambridge from Vienna 

 in May, 1870, to assist Agassiz for two years in their 

 arrangement and determination. Chosen to accom- 

 pany Agassiz in his voyage on the Hasslcr, he had 

 the rare privilege of seeing the fish fauna from Cape 

 Cod to the Strait of Magellan, the Galapagos, Panama, 

 Acapulco, San Diego, and San Francisco. As he had 

 already examined the fauna of the West Coast of Africa, 

 especially at the Cabo de Verde, he had acquired an 

 unusual knowledge of ichthyology. His work at the 

 Museum was most valuable. Returning to his native 

 country at the end of 1872, he was placed at the head 

 of the zoological division of the Imperial Museum of 

 natural history at Vienna, and has since become direc- 

 tor-general. Before leaving Cambridge, he said to me : 

 " No naturalist knows fishes like Agassiz ; his knowl- 

 edge in ichthyology is unparalleled on account of his 

 researches on both the living and fossil species ! " An 

 opinion which, coming from such a learned ichthyolo- 

 gist, who was also reserved and careful in his judg- 

 ment, is worth recording. 



A conchologist of talent, John G. Anthony, was 

 attached to the Museum, about 1864, to catalogue and 



