APPENDIX A. 



BIOGRAPHIES OF LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



THE biographies of Louis Agassiz are numerous. Many are mere 

 sketches, and more are only repetitions without any original facts. 

 Scientific periodicals, and even literary reviews and political news- 

 papers, have published a number of articles on Agassiz. I shall 

 quote only those containing original matter. The biographical 

 sketches in dictionaries and encyclopaedias, such as the " Diction- 

 naire cles Contemporains," by Vapereau ; Appleton's " Cyclopedia 

 of American Biographies, 11 and others in English, French, and Ger- 

 man, are all compilations, more or less well executed, without real 

 value, except to popularize his name. 



Several papers and books have been quoted, which contain orig- 

 inal and important facts bearing on the life of Agassiz, although 

 they were published for other purposes, and under titles which do 

 not indicate Agassiz's connection with the subject treated. 



i. DURING HIS LIFE. 

 Only three original biographies were published during his life. 



1845. --The first appeared at Geneva in 1845-47, in the "Album 

 de la Suisse Romane," Vol. V., p. I, 4to, with portrait. The title 

 is Agassiz. The name of the author is not given, but in the Table 

 of Contents, at the end of the volume, it is entered as "Par F. J. 

 Pictet," .the celebrated naturalist of Geneva. As I have mentioned, 

 the manuscript was sent to Agassiz, at Neuchatel, for correction. 



This article did not make its appearance until Agassiz was already 

 in America; and it is doubtful whether Agassiz ever received a 



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