238 Obituary—Alexander Agassiz. 
1895. ‘Glacial Phenomena near York’’: Proc. Yorks. Geol. Soc., xiii, p. 15. 
1897. ‘‘Geology of the London Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield, and 
Lincolnshire Railway.’’—Part 1: Annesley to Rugby: Grou. Mac., p. 49. 
“Notes on the Stratigraphy of the Newer Rocks of the Netherseal 
Borings’’: Trans. Fed. Inst. M.E., xii, p. 598. 
‘Notes on the Coast between Redcar and Scarborough ’’: Proc. Yorks. 
Geol. Soc., xii, p. 248. 
1898. ‘‘Sections along the Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway 
between Lincoln and Chesterfield ” : Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., liv, p. 157. 
‘* Filey Bay and Brigg’’: Proc. Yorks. Geol. Soc., xii, p. 338. 
‘Notes on the Coast Sections between Hayburn Wyke and Filey”: 
ibid., p. 356. 
IMD, 6 x otes on Spitsbergen and Iceland’’: Trans. Leicester Lit. and Phil. Soc., 
7, p» 404. 
1907. Aveo ‘‘Geology”’ in the Victoria History of the Counties of England, 
Leicester, vol. i. 
“The Geology of North-East Yorkshire in relation to the Water Supply of 
the District’: Trans. Brit. Assoc. Waterw. Engin., xi, p. 113. 
Article ‘ Geology in ‘A Guide to Leicester and District”: prepared for 
Brit. Assoc. 
1908. ‘‘Notes on the Geology of Leicestershire’’: Rep. Brit. Assoc. for 1907, 
p- 503. 
HB OWE 
ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, 
For. Mems. Roy. Soc. 
Born Drcemper 17, 1835. Dizp Marcu 28, 1910. 
We regret to record the death of this distinguished naturalist on 
March 28 at the age of 74, when returning from Europe to the 
United States on board the s.s. ‘‘ Adriatic”’. 
Born at Neuchatel, Switzerland, December 17, 1835, son of the 
celebrated Professor Louis Agassiz,‘ he accompanied his father in 
1846 to the United States, where the elder Agassiz had been 
appointed Professor of Zoolog ey and Geology in the University of 
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Educated at Harvard, where he took 
his B.Sc. degree at the age of 22, and of which University i in 1878 
he was elected a Fellow, Alexander Agassiz served for a short time 
on the United States Geological Survey. Turning his attention 
shortly afterwards to mining, he speedily proved so successful that, 
having acquired property in the Lake Superior region, he rapidly 
amassed a very large fortune in copper-mines. 
The possession of independent means early enabled him to devote 
his time and studies to natural history pursuits. At first he assisted 
his father as Curator of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, and after 
his father’s death he acted as Curator for eleven years. As his 
wealth increased he became a great benefactor to this Museum, not 
only by purchasing books and specimens, but by gifts of money up 
to £100,000. Commencing with the study of marine ichthyology, he 
subsequently devoted himself to, and became one of the highest 
authorities on, the Echinodermata, so that, on the return of H.M.S. 
‘‘Challenger”’, he was asked to undertake the report on the 
Echinoderms collected during the voyage. 
But the work for which Alexander Agassiz will be chiefly 
1 See obituary of Professor L. Agassiz (1807-73), Gzox. Mac., 1874, pp. 47-8. 
