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Favre. The article is good and highly complimentary, but rather 

 "tardif." 



1882. Editard Desor. Lebensbild eines Naturforschers, von 

 Carl Vogt. Breslau. 37 pages. 8vo. Published first in a re- 

 view, it was afterwards issued as part of the "Deutsche Biicherei." 

 Several pages of this biography of Eduard Desor are filled with 

 notes on Agassiz. Although rather prejudiced, and written in a 

 tone of severe criticism, and entirely hostile to the inhabitants of 

 Neuchatel, the article contains interesting and generally fair ac- 

 counts of the life of Agassiz at Neuchatel from 1839 to 1844, and 

 on the glacier of the Aar from 1840 to 1843. This was during the 

 most active part of Agassiz's scientific life, and at a very critical 

 period in the publication of his costly works. Vogt, with his sharp 

 eyes, inclined to see the humorous of everything, gives a rather 

 piquant inside view of Agassiz's scientific and business methods. 

 The article is written somewhat coarsely, but humorous, and not 

 always in sympathy with his subject ; for even his old companion 

 Desor is not secure from his scorching criticism. 



1882. Alexander Br ami's Leben nach seinem handschriftlichen 

 Nachlass, dargestellt von C. Mettenius. Berlin, 1882. This most 

 interesting biography of Agassiz's friend and brother-in-law, Alex- 

 ander Braun, contains several letters by or to Agassiz, and many 

 references to their relations when students at Heidelberg, Munich, 

 and Paris. Although written by his daughter, Alexander Braun's 

 life is not a family eulogy, but a true life, with many private inci- 

 dents, which give a tone of veracity, most appreciated by those 

 who want to know in full the different phases of the character 

 of a savant. 



1882. Hist oi re abrcgee de la S octet e Neuchdteloise des Sciences 

 Naturelles depitis sa Fondation, par Louis Favre. " Bull. Soc. Sc. 

 Nat. de Neuchatel,"' Vol. XIII., pp. 3-33. Neuchatel, Decembre, 

 1882. This is an address on the fiftieth anniversary of the founda- 

 tion of the Natural History Society of Neuchatel, " societe dont 

 1'idee et 1'initiative sont dues a. Agassiz, 1 ' according to the author. 

 It contains important facts in the scientific life of Agassiz during his 



