

INDEX. 



Aar, Glacier of, i. 147, 163, 175, 187, 

 195, 203, 219, 250, 251, 263. 



Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- 

 delphia, ii. 27. 



Agasse, M., publisher in Paris, i. 3. 



Agassiz, family origin, i. i; different 

 branches of the family, i. 2 ; coat of 

 arms, i. 2; name in Arabic, Mau- 

 resque, and Saracenic language, i. 3 ; 

 name in Italy, i. 3; an Agassiz mar- 

 ried to a French Huguenot, i. 4; 

 family connections in the Cevennes 

 and Provence, i. 4 ; descendants of 

 French Huguenots mere tradition, i. 

 4 ; family features Swiss and Jurassic, 

 i. 4. 



Agassiz, Rodolphe Benjamin Louis, 

 father of Louis, i. 5 ; pastor at Mo- 

 tier, i. 5; leaves St. Imier, i. 6; his 

 children, i. 7 ; as a teacher, i. 8. 



Agassiz, Auguste, at the College of 

 Bienne, i. 10. 



Agassiz, Mrs. Rose, i. 14. 



Agassiz, Mrs. Cecile, as an artist, i. 57 ; 

 dislikes Neuchatel.i. 58 ; an excellent 

 and careful mother, i. 66; in poor 

 health, i. 246 ; joins her family at 

 Carlsruhe, i. 246 ; her death, ii. 18. 



Agassiz, Alexander, i. 232, 262, ii. 51, 

 61, 88, 137, 192. 



Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe. 



VOL. I. Born at Motier, 7 ; takes 

 naturally to water, 8 ; the best pupil 

 of his father, 8 ; his passion for col- 

 lecting objects of natural history, 9 ; 

 goes to the College of Bienne, 9 ; his 

 capacity for languages, 9 ; geography 

 his favourite study, 10 ; walks to and 

 from Motier and Bienne, 10 ; vaca- 

 tions spent at his grandfather's, Dr. 

 Mayor, ii ; country life at Cudrefin, 

 ii ; as a sportsman, 12; enters the 



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commercial house of his uncle, 13; 

 at the College of Lausanne, 13; re- 

 solves to become a naturalist, 13 ; 

 asks permission to study medicine, 

 14 ; as an admirer of the fair sex, 14 ; 

 goes to the University of Zurich, 14 ; 

 studies ornithology, 14 ; student life 

 at Zurich, 15 ; his friendship for 

 Arnold Escher, 15 ; his motto " First 

 at work, and first at play," 16; his 

 constitution, 16; goes to the Univer- 

 sity of Heidelberg, 16 ; becomes ac- 

 quainted with Alexander Braun and 

 Karl Schimper, 16 ; visits Carliiruhe, 

 16; sickness at Heidelberg, 18 ; ex- 

 plores the environs of Orbe, 38 ; 

 writes his first essay in natural history 

 at Orbe, 18 ; his first artists, the two 

 " Ceciles," 19 ; joins Braun at Carls- 

 ruhe, 20; portrait by Miss Cecile 

 Braun, 20; goes to Munich, 21; 

 visits the Royal Museum at Stutt- 

 gart, 21 ; visits Esslingen, 21 ; visit 

 to Ferdinand von Hochstetter, 21 ; 

 at Munich, with Braun and Schim- 

 per, 21 ; at the house of Dollinger, 

 22; becomes Germanized, 22; Er- 

 wiedening attf Dr. Karl Schimper' s 

 Aiignffe, 22 ; as a swordsman, 22 ; 

 his pleasure in fencing, 23 ; chal- 

 lenges the German Club, 23 ; confines 

 himself to work on fishes, 24; his 

 yearly allowance, 24; student life at 

 Munich, 24 ; his happy life at Munich, 

 25 ; his acquaintance courted by all, 

 25 ; doctor of medicine, 26 ; doctor 

 of philosophy from the University of 

 Erlangen, 26; Martins secures his 

 services on the fishes of Brazil, 27 ; 

 receives his degree of doctor of 

 medicine, 27; his fishes of Brazil 

 attracts the attention of Cuvier, 28 ; 



