INDEX 



Abbot, E. H., 19. 



Acalephs, 47, 116, 273, 345. 



Acapulco, 259-61. 



Adams, Henry, 447. 



Adams, J. Q., 241. 



Africa, East, 442-43. 



Africa, north coast, 232-33. 



Africa, South, 346-47. _ 



Agassiz, Alexander, birth, 6; life at 

 Neuchatel, 6-8 ; at Freiburg, 9-13 ; 

 leaves for America, 13 ; arrival in 

 America, 14 ; goes to Cambridge High 

 School, 15 ; life at Cambridge, 15-18 ; 

 visits Charleston, 18 ; college life, 19- 

 23 ; Scientific School, 23 ; teaches in 

 his father's school, 23-24 ; Coast Sur- 

 vey assistant in Cal., 25-27; appointed 

 agent of Museum, 28 ; marriage, 28 ; 

 life at Museum, 32-44 ; early zoolog- 

 ical research, 44 ; summer work at 

 Nahant, 45 ; embryology of Echino- 

 derms, 45-46 ; study of Annelids, 46- 

 47 ; of Acalephs, 47 ; first views of evo- 

 lution, 48-52 ; manages coal mines in 

 Penn., 53 ; visits Calumet, 57 ; opinion 

 of Calumet, 58-60 ; sent to take charge 

 of Calumet, 61 ; life at Calumet, 62- 

 85 ; later development of Calumet, 

 86-89 ; resumes scientific work at Mu- 

 seum, 91 ; study of beaver, 94-96 ; 

 illness, 97; visit to Europe, 97-114; 

 work on "Revision," 114; rents 

 "Shady Hill," 115; study of Torna- 

 ria, 115; embryology of jelly-fish, 

 116; visits Challenger at Halifax, 

 121 ; publication of the " Revision of 

 the Echini," 122 ; on evolution, 122- 

 23 ; death of his father and wife, 124 ; 

 takes charge of the Museum, 128-29 ; 

 continues school at Penikese, 129-31 ; 

 visits Chile and Peru, 131-41 ; ex- 

 ploration of Lake Titicaca, 142-49; 

 collects South American antiquities, 

 149 ; selects Newport as best place 

 for marine studies, and builds a 

 house, 151 ; his dislike of automobiles, 

 152-53; the Newport Laboratory, 

 153-56 ; studies in embryology, 156 ; 



of flounders, 156-57 ; helps sort the 

 Challenger collections, 157-58 ; the 

 Challenger Echini, 15S-61 ; on evolu- 

 tion, 162-64 ; early interest in ocean- 

 ography, 165, natural aptitude for, 

 167 ; liability to seasickness, 167 ; 

 broader aspects of work, 168; in- 

 vited to take charge of Blake, 169 ; 

 adopts wire rope for dredging and 

 other improvements, 169-71 ; first 

 cruise of Blake, 172-79 ; on wire rope, 

 173-75 ; second cruise of Blake, 178- 

 82; third cruise of Blake, 183-S5; 

 distribution of collections, 185 ; Gulf 

 Stream, 185-86 ; Panamicstudies,186 ; 

 on survival of Archaic types, 186-87 ; 

 on the depths of the ocean, 188-89 ; 

 unable to winter in New England, 

 191; mining ventures, 191-92 ; visit to 

 ruins of Yucatan, 194-203 ; Mexico, 

 203-04; visits India, 208-10; visits 

 Hawaiian Islands, 213-16; on early 

 Americans, 216-17 ; offered charge of 

 Coast Survey, 219-20; Egypt and 

 Eastern Med., 221-23 ; fires in Calu- 

 met, 225-26 ; honorary degree at 

 Cambridge, Eng., 227 ; Cor. memb. 

 of French Academy of Sc, 227 ; win- 

 ter in northern Africa, 232-33; his 

 development of Museum, 235-37; 

 other University interests, 237-38 ; in 

 re undergraduate education, 238-40; 

 resigns from Corporation, 241 ; First 

 Albatross Expedition, 244-63 ; bathy- 

 metrical range, 263-66 ; Panamic 

 studies, 266-68 ; Japan, 269-71 ; Cal- 

 amocrinus, 272 ; young fishes and 

 jelly-fish, 273; scientific correspond- 

 ence, 273; Florida reefs, 277-78; 

 Coral theories, 279 ; Tortugas, 280- 

 82 ; to Darwin on coral reefs, 284- 

 86 ; Hawaiian reefs, 286-87 ; Baha- 

 mas, 288-95, coral formations, 296- 

 98 ; Bermudas, 300, structure of, 301 

 -05; Florida reefs, 306-09; Great 

 Barrier Reef, 311-19, formation, 319 

 -21 ; Mexico, 322 ; the Fijis, 324-35 ; 

 Hawaii, 335, reefs of, 335-36; for- 



