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APPENDfX B. 



picture of Agassiz and Desor on the same canvas ; neither is u 

 good likeness, that of Agassiz more especially being very poor. 

 This large picture is now in the fine picture gallery of the city of 

 Neuchatel. 



In 1886, another oil portrait, by Alfred Berthoud, by order of 

 the Canton of Neuchatel, was painted, and placed, first, in the hall 

 of the Great Council of the canton, and afterward in the Anla of 

 the Academy of Neuchatel. 



After Agassiz's death, in 1875, a large oil portrait was made by 

 Mrs. C. V. Hamilton, and is placed in the library of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History. The likeness is not good, and it is a 

 very poor representation of the great naturalist. A painter named 

 Billings, also, made an unsuccessful attempt at a picture of Agassiz. 



Lately, 1894, another three-quarters length life-sized portrait of 

 Agassiz has been executed in oil, by an American artist, Walter 

 Gilman Page, who never saw him when he was alive. The flesh 

 tints are far too exaggerated, and the picture does not give a cor- 

 rect idea of the original. It also is an unsatisfactory likeness. It 

 has been placed at the Agassiz School in Jamaica Plain, near Boston. 



If we do not possess a single good likeness in oil of Agassiz, we 

 have, per contra, many excellent lithographs and photographs. 

 The first one is to be found in "Excursions et se"jours dans les 

 glaciers et les hautes regions des Alpes, de M. Agassiz et de ses 

 compagnons de voyage," par E. Desor, Neuchatel, 1844. It is the 

 frontispiece of the volume, and was drawn on stone, by A. Sonrel, 

 from a daguerrotype of very small size. The likeness was not 

 very good, except the upper part of the head. 



The second was published in the ' Album de la Suisse Romane," 

 Geneva, to accompany his biography, page r, by his friend Jules 

 Pictet de la Rive, in Vol. V., 1847. The drawing was made on 

 stone, from life, by M. P. Elie Bovet, at Neuchatel, in 1845. It is 

 a good portrait, cabinet size; rather rare. It was unknown to his 

 family, as well as the biography, until I discovered them in 1887, 

 while reading Agassiz's correspondence with Pictet. 



The third portrait appeared as the frontispiece of the first volume 

 of " The Annual of Scientific Discovery ; or, Year-Book of Fuels 

 in Science and Arts. 1 ' edited by David A. Wells and George I'.i: 



