§ Aar, glacier, 299, 317, 319, 349, 

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



W 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, 230. 



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 Bienne, 6; 

 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 

 Alps, 16, 17; offer of adoption 

 by a Genevese gentleman, 17, 

 18; goes to Heidelberg, 19; 

 stndent life, 22; described in 

 Braun' s letters, 25, 27 ; at Carls- 

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

 nich, 46 ; description of Museum 

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INDEX, 



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 F^rus- 

 sac, 171 ; plans for disposing of 

 collection, 176; curious di-eam, 

 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 ; birthdav 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, 



