APPENDIX B. 



AGASSIZ'S PORTRAITS, ENGRAVINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS, 

 BUSTS, MEDALS, AND TABLETS. 



AGASSIZ'S face has been popularized by many portraits, although 

 not a single good oil portrait of him exists. The only good coloured 

 picture is a miniature pastel drawing, made by his first wife, when 

 he was a student at Heidelberg, at the age of nineteen. A copy of 

 it forms the frontispiece of Vol. I., of " Louis Agassiz, his Life and 

 Correspondence," edited by Elizabeth Gary Agassiz. 



In 1840, Jacques Burkhardt made a portrait of Agassiz, but it is 

 a very poor likeness. It is preserved in the public library of 

 Neuchatel. 



In 1842, Agassiz's portrait was painted, of natural size, by an 

 artist of the name of Zuberbuhler. His face is much coloured, as 

 if by sunburn, and he is dressed in a brown coat, decorated with a 

 long golden chain, and is represented surrounded by masses of ice. 

 It is a poor likeness, and the picture as a whole is not in good taste. 

 The original is now at the house of Mr. Alexander Agassiz at Cam- 

 bridge. A copy of it, made at Neuchatel for M. Auguste Mayor, 

 has been improved in regard to the surroundings ; instead of a 

 great mass of ice with blue-green crevices, the background is 

 occupied by a true landscape of the glacier of the Aar, and show- 

 ing the Finsteraarhorn, the Agassiz's horn, and the " Hotel des 

 Neuchatelois." 



In 1846, AI. Fritz Berthoud, a banker of Neuchatel, at the same 

 time an amateur painter, then a resident of Paris, made a full-length 



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