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manuscript of the Catalogue, from the beginning, at Paris, in 1846; 

 and it fell to my lot to finish it, after M. Desor left Paris, in 

 February. 1847. the memoir appearing in January, 1848, under my 



editorship. 



t 

 1879. Scientific Worthies. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, in 



"Nature," Vol. XIX., pp. 573-576. London, April, 1879. This 

 anonymous paper is mainly a translation of Dr. Steindachner's 

 necrology of Agassiz, mentioned above. In the main it is exact, 

 only it is marred by an unusual number of typographical errors, and 

 several dates are not given with sufficient accuracy. 



1879. Louis Agassiz, par Louis Favre, in the u Academic de 

 Neuchatel. Programme des cours pour I'anne'e scolaire 1879-1880." 

 Neuchatel, 32 pages, 4to, with an excellent portrait. This is by far 

 the best academic eulogy of Agassiz. The author knew Agassiz per- 

 sonally, and, although not a naturalist, had lived long enough among 

 naturalists to be able to appreciate justly the great scientific worth of 

 Agassiz's numerous discoveries. It contains three letters addressed 

 to M. Louis de Coulon, and several extracts from notes dictated by 

 Agassiz. After Mrs. E. C. Agassiz's life of her husband, it is the 

 most important contribution we possess on the life of the great 

 naturalist. It is to be regretted that it is very little known in 

 America and England. 



1883. Memoir of Louis Agassiz, 1807-1873, by Arnold Guyot. 

 Read before the National Academy of Sciences, October, 1877, and 

 April, 1878, in Washington. 49 pages, 8vo. Printed at Princeton, 

 New Jersey, and not distributed until April, 1883. 



The part relating to Agassiz's stay in the Braun family at Carls- 

 ruhe, in 1826, during a vacation, when a student at Heidelberg, is 

 well written and charming ; but the author gives too prominent a 

 place to the Glacial question, considering the other researches of 

 Agassiz. 



The great objection to Guyot's paper is that it seems to be written 

 not so much in honour of Agassiz, as to urge his own claim to pre- 

 tended discoveries of the laminated or ribbon structure of the ice. 

 To all impartial glacialists, the part taken by Guyot in the Glacial 



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