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This is a scientific sketch rather than a biographic notice. The 

 author, an entomologist and a writer of scientific articles in the 

 " Revue des Deux mondes, 1 ' although slightly acquainted with 

 Agassiz, knew little of his life and of his great works on zoology, 

 palaeontology, and the glaciers. The article is sympathetic, and 

 written for a special class of readers, not savants, but dilettanti '; 

 but there is nothing new or impressive in it. M. Blanchard takes 

 this occasion to claim priority over Agassiz in regard to the dif- 

 ferences presented between species on account of a more or less 

 advanced state of development and the diminution of typical char- 

 acters among small species of great natural families. 



1878. Jean de Charpentier, par le Docteur Herman Lebert. a 

 biography published in " Actes de la Societe' Helvetique des Sciences 

 naturelles rdunies a Bex, 11 aout, 1877, pp. 140-154. Lausanne, 1878. 

 In it.t\\<> pa-rs, pp. 141; -150, arc. 1 de-voted to Louis Agassiz; remark- 

 ably correct and of a fine touch ; an excellent sketch, by one who 

 had known Agassiz intimately, and was the first savant who associ- 

 ated with de Charpentier in the glacial theory. His reminiscence of 

 Agassiz, with its interesting anecdotes, is most important, and one 

 of the finest tributes to both de Charpentier and Agassiz. 



1879-1887. Recollections of Agassiz, by Edwin P. Whipple, in 

 his " Character and Characteristic Men," and -Recollections of 

 Eminent Men," pp. 266-292, and pp. 77-118. 8vo ; Boston. 1879 

 and 1887. An excellent critique, the best from a literary point of 

 view. 



1 88 1. Louis Agassiz, son activitl: a Neuchdtel conune natural! si e 

 et comme profcssenr dc 1832 a 1846, par Louis Favre. "Bulletin 

 Soc. Sc. nat. de Neuchatel, 1 ' Vol. XII., pp. 355-372. Neuchatel, 

 2 Juin, iSSi. " Un hommage tardif," as it is called by its author. 

 At the time of Agassiz's death, the president, M. Louis de Coulon, 

 announced the painful news, at the meeting of the i8th December, 

 1873, simply saying, "M. Agassiz jouissait au milieu de nous 

 de Testime ge'ne'rale." That was all. And the society founded 

 by Agassiz, in 1832, waited eight years before a eulogy of him 

 was read before it, a "devoir sacre," 1 as it was called by Louis 



