INDEX. 



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Aar, glacier of, 72 



Agassiz, Professor Alexander, 216 



Agassiz, Association, The, 196 ; 

 constitution of, 198 



Agassiz, Auguste, 8 ; devotion of, 

 to his brother, 15 



Agassiz, Jean Louis Rudolphe, 

 birthplace of, i ; parentage, 2 ; 

 early love of nature, 2 ; first 

 collection of fishes, 3 ; manly 

 traits of, 4 ; inventive and imi- 

 tative faculties of, 4 ; influence 

 of his mother on, 5 ; early college 

 life at Bienne, 8 ; forming a 

 library, 9 ; outlining his future 

 career, 10 ; entering the medical 

 school, 12 ; strong personality of , 

 13 ; filial affection of, 14 ; his 

 love of books, 15 ; reasons for 

 entering Heidelberg, 18 ; early 

 associations, 18-19 ; as a linguist, 

 19 ; college life, 20 ; strong re- 

 ligious convictions of, 2i ; daily 

 routine at Munich, 28 ; first lec- 

 tures, 28 ; desire to travel, 29 ; 

 offer to visit Brazil, 32 ; training 

 for forced marches while on 

 expeditions, 35 ; examination, 

 passed for degree of Doctor of 

 Philosophy, 36 ; examination for 

 degree of Doctor of Medicine, 

 39 ; struggles as a doctor, 40 ; 

 life in Paris, 41 ; poverty of, 

 while in Paris, 43 ; remarkable 

 dream of, 44 ; accepts offer of a 



professorship at Neuchatel, 49 ; 

 lectures to pupils (first), 53 ; suc- 

 cess as a teacher, 53 ; his love 

 for children, 55 ; declines the 

 call to chair of zoology at Heidel- 

 berg, 56 ; threatened with blind- 

 ness, 57 ; marriage to Cecile 

 Braun, 57; wins the Wollaston 

 prize, 57 ; visits England, 59, 

 seq.; journey to Bex, 61 ; sells 

 his original drawings to defray 

 expenses, 62 ; speech on glaciers, 

 63 ; antagonism to his speech on 

 glaciers, 63-64 ; refuses the offers 

 of professorship from Geneva 

 and Lausanne, 66 ; establishes a 

 lithographic printing establish- 

 ment in Neuchatel, 66 ; made a 

 member of the Royal Society of 

 London, 67 ; visits Mont Blanc, 

 68 ; trials of poverty, 71 ; de- 

 scends into a glacier, 75 ; ascent 

 of the Jungfrau, 77 ; wins the 

 Monthyon prize of physiology, 

 87 ; visits America, 87 ; lectures 

 at Lowell Institute, 87 ; accepts 

 chair of Natural History of Cam- 

 bridge, 97 ; marries Elizabeth 

 Graves Gary, loi ; accepts pro- 

 fessorship in the Charleston 

 Medical College, 102 ; wins the 

 Cuvier prize, 103 ; offered an 

 appointment by Napoleon, 103 ; 

 declines offer of appointment of 

 the University of Zurich, 104 ; 

 opens a school in Boston, 104 ; 

 tendered the chair of Palseon- 



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