BIBLIOGBAPHY. 



There are three longer Lives of Agas- 

 siz (in book form) and also a very large 

 number of shorter accounts of his life in 

 popular or scientific periodicals and in 

 the Transactions of learned societies. A 

 person who aims at exhaustive reading 

 will have scores, if not hundreds, of such 

 articles to deal with ; and any selection 

 from them is necessarily somewhat arbi- 

 trary. The short list given below in 

 chronological order has been made with 

 reference to the average reader of no 

 special tastes, and nothing has been 

 named which cannot be read in English. 

 The three longer Lives were written in 

 English ; the shorter accounts are in 

 many languages, French (naturally) 

 coming next to English in order of fre- 

 quency. Extensive bibliographies are 

 given in Mr. Marcou's and Mr. Holder's 

 books mentioned below. In this list the 

 three longer Lives and three shorter com- 



