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looking attentively at the specimen. This portrait, with a few 

 changes, has been used by Mr. C. F. Holder, as the frontispiece 

 for his volume. " Louis Agassiz, his Life and Work," New York, 

 1893 ; but the engraving is very poor, and the likeness decidedly 

 bad. In 1866, when at Rio de Janeiro, just after his return from 

 the Amazons, Agassiz was taken at full length with his friend 

 Major Coutinho, Agassiz's right hand resting on the right shoulder 

 of Coutinho. This is one of the most animated portraits of Agas- 

 siz, who looks browned by his ten months' stay on the great 

 Amazons, but full of life and very spirited, with his piercing eyes 

 and his strong frame, so much in contrast with Coutinho's small 

 size. 



The portrait of Agassiz, forming the frontispiece of Vol. II. of 

 Mrs. Agassiz's life of her husband, is taken from an engraving, 

 which appeared in 'Nature,' 1 April, 1879, with a biography of 

 Agassiz, one of the " Scientific Worthies Series " of that periodical. 

 The likeness is poor. But in the French translation of Mrs. 

 Agassiz's work, by Auguste Mayor, the frontispiece portrait of 

 Agassiz is excellent, the best by far of all those published. The 

 portrait published by Louis Favre, in his biography of Agassiz, 

 forming part of the Programme des cours de TAcadcfmie de 

 Neuchatel pour Tannee scolaire, 1879, 1880." is also a good likeness. 



I know only one double photograph of Agassiz for use in a 

 stereoscope. It was made by Sonrel in 1861, and represents 

 Agassiz in his library at his home in Quincy Street. A part of 

 the library is visible, as well as a geological map of Central Europe 

 hanging against the bookcase. It was made as an imitation of 

 "Alexander von Humboldt in his library," 1 a popular engraving 

 often seen in Germany and Switzerland, and a part of which may 

 be seen in the corner of the photograph. Agassiz is seated at his 

 desk, loaded with manuscripts, and looking through a magnifying- 

 glass at a fossil on a small stone held in his left hand. The expres- 

 sion is rather too serious, but it is a good portrait. 



As to the three busts executed after his death, by three artists 

 who had never seen him. they are all poor so far as likeness is con- 

 cerned. One is by Mr. Preston Power, and may be sec-n at tin- 

 Agassiz Museum, and a cast of it at the library of the Huston 



