SCIENCE 



New Series. 

 Vol. III. No. 69. 



Friday, April 24, 1896. 



Single Copies, 15 cxs. 

 Annual Sobsceiption, S5.00. 



MEMOIR OF THE GREAT KATURALIST. 



life, Letters and Works of Louis Agassiz. 



By JULES MARCOXJ. 



With Portraits and Illustrations. 



2 vols., crown 8vo, $4.00. 



PRESS COMMENTS. 



" It is impossible to do justice to this valuable work. * -'■■ ■'' 

 It must suffice to say that the two volumes are exceedingly 

 -attractive in their outward form, are profusely illustrated 

 .and will give a great many hours of pleasure to the reader. 

 In every way, in the matter of style, in the arrangement of 

 incidents, in the impartial criticism of the work of Agassiz, 

 it is altogether charming, and I feel free to assert that it is 

 one of the most delightful biographies I have ever read." — 

 New York Herald. 



"iWr. Marcou's volumes Jill the void in Agassiz' s history 

 ivhich was felt to exist despite all existent biographies., and 

 insisting, as they do^ upon Agassiz' s qualities and achieve- 

 ments as a naturalist, they yet have their deepest interest 

 in the depicting one of the m,ost individual characters of 

 the Nineteenth Cen(7i7-2/."— Providence Journal. 



"It would be difficult to speak too warmly of Prof. Mar- 

 cou's work. He presents Agassiz in all of his many sided- 

 ness. At the same time he has made a thoroughly readable 

 and enjoyable book. It is not^^a heavy and dull performance, 

 but a biography that pulsates with genuine warmths, and in 

 which the interest never lags. * * * This is the true and sat- 

 isfactory history of Agassiz."— Cincinnati Comniercial°Ga= 

 zette. 



" Louis Agassiz is shown to he a great and noble man ; a 

 great man among great men., a genius as a naturalist; 

 and in some lines of study he had no superior, if he had an 

 equal, among his contemporaries. * * * Agassiz's social 

 and prof essional life are faithf idly and clearly portrayed 

 in this biography, and although it was ivritten especially 

 J'or scientific readers it will be read with great interest by 

 the general reader^ — Journal of Education. 



" After waiting for nearly a quarter of a century, the world 

 receives in the ' Life, Letters and Works of Louis Agassiz,' by 



Jules Marcou, what is fairly to be accepted as the first and 

 only complete and satisfactory biography of the eminent 

 man of science with whose career it deals."— Boston Beacon. 



" This is a work ivhich not only gives a detailed account 

 of Agassiz" s researches in the realms of science, but at the 

 same time reveals the mail as a student, teacher, lecturer, 

 as a delightful companion, a man enjoying fully the de- 

 lights of refined society, and, above all, as the friend and 

 helper of the struggling and aspiring'."- Chicago Evening; 

 Post. 



"To scientists, especially naturalists, the biography of 

 Louis Agassiz will be a great pleasure, and they owe to its 

 author a debt of gratitude that at last they have a complete 

 and reliable history of his life and a true estimate ot his 

 work." — Boston Times. 



" Mr. Marcou has gathered up the story of two parts of 

 Agassiz's life into a statement that is adequate and will 

 properly supplement the public evidence of luhat he accom- 

 pZis/ted. "—Boston Herald. 



"Mr. Marcou enjoyed the close friendship of Agassiz dur 

 ing almost thirty years, being one of the few men to whom 

 he freely unbosomed himself, and he is the last survivor of 

 the small band of European naturalists who came to Amer- 

 ica with him. His admiration of the man is not concealed ' 

 but he claims to have had constantly in view the truth. * * * 

 The task of writing his life has been to Mr. Marcou a work 

 of friendly love and respect for the man, and of justice to 

 the savant, and he has given us a work of most fascinating 

 interest, which is of very gi-eat credit to himself, as well as a 

 splendid tribute to his illustrious subject."— Boston Home 

 Journal. 



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