Born in Switzerland, Louis Agassiz (1807 73) distinguished himself as one of the most capable and industrious naturalists of the nineteenth century, working in fields as diverse as ichthyology and glaciology. In the late 1840s, he moved to North America, where he became a professor of zoology at Harvard and established the Museum of Comparative Zoology. His extensive bibliography of all known works relating to zoology and geology, which he had compiled for private use, was revised and substantially expanded by the English naturalist Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811 53) and published by the Ray...
Born in Switzerland, Louis Agassiz (1807 73) distinguished himself as one of the most capable and industrious naturalists of the nineteenth century, w...