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scientific society of prominence in the world ; his 

 publications, monographs, and reports of various 

 kinds, in connection with his father and individually, 

 being among the valuable contributions to science 

 of the day. With Mrs. Elizabeth C. Agassiz he is 

 joint author of a delightful work, Sea-Side Studies in 

 Natural History, while of his father's works he 

 completed the fifth volume of Contributions to the 

 Natural History of the United States, 



In a single chapter it is impossible to give more 

 than a suggestion of the works of Louis Agassiz, 

 but a study of his bibliography shows him to have 

 been one of the most exhaustive and comprehensive 

 thinkers in the field of science that any age has 

 produced 



