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1874. Obituary. Louis John Rudolpli Agassis, by Benjamin 

 Silliman. Jr. In -American Journal of Science, 1 ' Third Series, 

 Vol. VII., pp. 77-80, January, 1874. The author gives extracts 

 from two letters of Agassiz, dated October^ 1845, ancl February, 

 1846, addressed to Benjamin Silliman, Sr. 



1874. Notice biographique stir Loin's Agassis, par Alphonse 

 de Candolle, dans son Rapport comme President de la Societe de 

 Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Geneve pour Pannee 1873-1874. 

 Lu le 16 Juillet, 1874. "Mem. Soc. Phys. et Hist. Nat.," Vol. 

 XXIII., pp. 470-478. 4to, Geneve, 1874. An excellent and origi- 

 nal biography, containing two most interesting letters addressed to 

 M. Louis de Coulon of Neuchatel, written by Agassiz, from Paris, 

 during the months of March and June, 1832. 



1874. Louis Jean Rodolphe Agassis, by the Duke of Argyll, in 

 the Anniversary Address of the President of the Geological Society 

 of London, "The Quarterly Journal, 11 Vol. XXX., May, 1874, pp. 

 xxxvii-xliii. This academic eulogy is less complete than that by 

 Mr. Lyman. 



1874. Louis Agassiz, by Dr. F. Steindachner, in "Die Feierliche, 

 Sitzung der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften am 30 Mai, 

 1874. Wien, pp. 60-82. The author, who accompanied Agassiz 

 in his last journey around South America, and passed three years 

 in constant and most intimate intercourse with him, has here written 

 an excellent k - Nekrolog," by far the best published in German. 

 Steindachner, being an excellent ichthyologist, was able to appreciate 

 at its full value the great and, as he says, the unique knowledge of 

 Agassiz, whom he justly calls his master. 



1874. (Sketch of) Professor Louis Agassiz, by Richard Bliss, 

 Jr., in "Popular Science Monthly," Vol. IV., pp. 608-618, with 

 portrait. New York, March, 1874. 



1875. Sketch of Agassiz, by L. F. de Pourtales, in "Harvard 

 Book, 11 by F. O. Waille and H. A. Clark, Vol. L, pp. 342-344- folio, 

 with an excellent portrait, taken from the larger photograph by 

 Sonrel, Cambridge, 1875. 



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