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copy of it, or ever saw it in print. It is excellent, and, although 

 short, is the best biographical sketch we have, so far as it goes ; 

 that is to say, up to 1845, when Agassiz was on the point of leaving 

 Neuchatel for America. 



By virtue of his own studies of fossil fishes and fossil inverte- 

 brates, Pictet was able to make a just estimation of the merit and 

 originality of Agassirs researches; and his liberty of judgment 

 and high sense of justice enabled him to examine, without prejudice, 

 the roles played in the glacial question by Venetz, de Charpentier, 

 and Agassiz. 



1847. The Life and Writings of Agassiz, published in Boston, 

 December, 1847, in the "Massachusetts Quarterly/ 1 Vol. I., pp. 96- 

 1 19. The author, Mr. J. Elliot Cabot, whose name is not, however, 

 attached to the article, wrote it from materials furnished by Agassiz's 

 secretary. M. Desor. It was substantially a translation, or rather, 

 a report of verbal information ; and it may be considered an accu- 

 rate sketch of Agassiz's life until his acceptance of the professor- 

 ship of zoology and geology at Harvard University. The article 

 was reprinted in the " Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal," 

 Vol. XLVI., p. i. Edinburgh, 1848. 



1847. At about the same time, 10 December, 1847, a Biographic 

 Notice of Professor Agassiz appeared in New York, in a pamphlet 

 entitled, ''Professor Agassiz's Lectures: The Animal Kingdom." 

 issued by Horace Greeley, the editor of the New York "Tribune." 

 The proofs of this short sketch, of only two pages, were corrected 

 by Agassiz and Auguste Mayor. 



Many newspapers and magazines reprinted in part these last two 

 biographical sketches. 



2. AFTER HIS DEATH. 



1874. Commemorative Notice ''Louis Agassiz, by Theodore 

 Lyman. This paper, by one of his favourite pupils, was published 

 as an academic eulogy, in the '' Annual Report of the Council ot 

 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 1873," Boston, 

 13 pages. It is a good sketch, and very complete, considering its 

 limitation to a dozen octavo pages. 



