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has published a German translation of Mrs. E. C. Agassiz's work, 

 under the title, '' Louis Agassiz, autoriste deutsche Ausgabe von 

 C. Mettenins. i vol., 8vo. Berlin, 1886. 



1887. Madame Elizabeth C. Agassis Louis Agassis : sa vie, sa 

 correspondance, traduit de r anglais par August e Mayor, i vol., 

 Svo, 617 pages, with a remarkably good portrait of Agassiz. Neu- 

 chatel, 1887. With the consent of Mrs. Agassiz, M. Mayor has 

 added several notes and extracts from letters not given in the 

 English version, and he has placed at the end the catalogue of 

 Louis Agassiz's publications. With M. Mayor, as well as with 

 Mrs. Agassiz, it was a work of love; and the French version is a 

 marked improvement on the original English edition, being more 

 complete, and, in consequence more valuable, notwithstanding the 

 suppression of a few letters found in the English edition, and the 

 omission of all the engravings, and the substitution of a portrait of 

 Agassiz, which, by the way, is far superior to the one published by 

 Mrs. Agassiz. 



1892. Louis Agassiz, par Philippe Godet, in "Petite Biblio- 

 theque Helvetique " ; a popular and patriotic publication, containing 

 the biographies of celebrated Swiss. 1 6 pages. 121110. Geneve, 1892. 



1893. Louis Agassis, his Life and ll'0r,by Charles Frederic 

 Holder, i vol., I2mo, 327 pages. New York, 1893. This is a well 

 illustrated volume, giving a sort of resume of Mrs. Agassiz's work, by 

 a person who did not know Agassiz personally. He has gone so far 

 as to quote what he represents as an extract from Agassiz's reply to 

 an offer made by the Emperor Napoleon of a position in France. 

 The correspondence on the subject is well known, having been 

 repeatedly published in newspapers, both in America and in Europe, 

 while I have given in full, in Chapter XVI ., pp. 7 1-72, Agassiz's answer 

 to the offer of M. Rouland, Secretary of Public Institutions, and there 

 is nothing in it resembling Mr. Holder's quotation, <; that his family 

 owed nothing to France but exile and poverty ; and that he prized 

 more highly the spontaneous gratitude and gifts of a free people 

 than the patronage of emperors and the formal regard of nobles." 

 It is an apocryphal letter. Agassiz was too courteous and too 



