INDEX. 



AAR, glacier, 299, 317, 319, 349, 

 357, 364 ; last visit to, 396 ; boul- 

 der-monument from, 783. 



Abert, Colonel, 423. 



"Academy, The Little," 54, 67, 

 94, 154. * 



Ackermann, 100. 



Actiniae, 440. 



Adelstaetten, 86. 



Agassiz, Alexander, 558, 628. 



Agassiz, Auguste, 3, 5, 8, 16, 24, 

 148. 



Agassiz, Cecile Braun, 230; talent 

 as an artist, 2-30. 



Agassiz, Elizabeth Gary, 477. 



Agassiz, Louis, 1 ; as a teacher, 

 7; popular reading, 66; becomes 

 pastor at Concise, 134; death, 

 280. 



Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe, 

 birthplace, 1; first aquarium, 2; 

 early education, 2; love of nat- 

 ural history, 3 ; boyish studies 

 and amusements, 4; taste for 

 handicraft; its after use, 4, 5; 

 adventure with his brother on 

 the ice, 5; goes to Bienue, 5; 

 college of Bienne, 6, 7; vaca- 

 tions, 8 ; own sketch of plans of 

 study at fourteen, 12; school 

 and college note-books, 13, 14; 

 distaste for commercial life, 14 ; 

 goes to Lausanne, 15: to the 

 medical school at Zurich, 15; 

 copies books on natural history, | 

 16, 148 ; first excursion in the j 

 Alps, 16, 17; offer of adoption i 

 by a Genevese gentleman, 17, 

 18; goes to Heidelberg, 19; j 

 student life, 22; described in i 

 Braun' s letter?, 25, 27 ; at Carls- 

 ruhe, 30, 33; illness, 32; at Mu- 

 nich, 46; description of Museum j 



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at Stuttgart, 47; of mammoth, 

 47; at Munich, 52, 55, 67, 143; 

 "The Little Academy," 54, 67, 

 94, 154; "Freshwater fishes of 

 Europe," 59; desire to travel, 

 60, 63, 64, 68; vacation trip, 70; 

 work on Brazilian fishes, 74; 

 second vacation trip, 82; grow- 

 ing collections, 95; plans for 

 travel with Humboldt, 99, 101, 

 102; doctor of philosophy, 109; 

 at Orbe and Cudrefin. 118; 

 death of Dr. Mayor, 118; doctor 

 of medicine, 119, 127 ; new in- 

 terest in medicine, 120; first 

 work on fossil fishes, 120, 123; 

 at Vienna, 130, 132; negotiations 

 with Cotta, 132, 133, 137; uni- 

 versity life, 144; at home, 158; 

 studies on cholera, 159 ; arrives 

 in Paris, 162; homesickness, 

 163 ; Cuvier gives him his fossil 

 fishes, 166; last interview with 

 Cuvier, 167; embarrassments, 

 169, 177, 178; offer from Ferus- 

 sac, 171 ; plans for disposing of 

 collection, 176; curious dream, 

 181; Humboldt's gift, 183; first 

 sight of sea, 189 ; plans for going 

 to Neuchatel, 190, 193, 199; in- 

 ducements to stay in Paris, 194, 

 197; birthday festival, 196; call 

 to Neuchatef, 199, 201, 202; first 

 lecture at Neuchatel, 206 ; suc- 

 cess as a teacher. 207, 208, 211 ; 

 impulse given to science, 208; 

 children's lectures, 208 ; call to 

 Heidelberg, 211, 214, 217; de- 

 clination, 214, 218; sale of col- 

 lection, 216. 217, 222; threat- 

 ened blindness. 218; publishing 

 "Fossil Fishes," 220, 238; mar- 

 riage, 230 ; growing reputation, 



