Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz, (1835-1910)
figlio di Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
His son succeded him, after taking degrees in
1857 in engeneering and natural history at Harward, then helping his father
for a few years. However, between 1863-68 he worked as mining engineer,
beginning to become a wealthy man, but evidently also an unhappy man, i.a.
because his wife died the same year as his father did, and grief is thought
to - at least partly - have driven his extensive research travels during
the coming three and a half decades [possibly (despite the male ending)
Leptogorgia caryi Verrill, 1868].
specie a lui dedicate
[Epigamia alexandri (Malmgren, 1867), Plutonaster agassizi (Verrill,
1880), Echinus alexandri Danielssen & Koren, 1883, Paelopatides agassizi
Théel, Chrysogorgia agassizii (Verrill, 1883), Alexandromenia agassizi
Heath,1911, Actinopyga agassizii (Selenka), Ampelisca agassizi (Judd, 1896),
Solenocera agassizii Faxon, 1893, Nephropsis agassizi A. Milne-Edwards,
1880, Coutiera agassizi (Coutière, 1901), Anacalliax agassizi (Biffar,
1971), ?Thamnostoma alexandri (Mayer, 1904), Timoides agassizi Bigelow,
1904, Phascolosoma (Phascolosoma) agassizii Keferstein, 1867, Dionchus
agassizi Goto, 1899, Colobomatus agassizi (Richiardi, 1877), Galathea agassizii
A. Milne-Edwards, 1880, Gymnobela agassizi Verrill & Smith, 1980, Opisthoteuthis
agassizi Verrill, 1883, Pylocheles (Pylocheles) agassizii A. Milne Edwards,
1880, Cocculina agassizi Dall, 1908, Bartschia agassizi (Clench & Aguayo,
1941), Agatrix agassizii (Dall, 1889), Borsonella agassizi (Dall, 1908),
Pleurotomella agassizii Verrill & Smith, 1880, Pleurobranchaea agassizii
Bergh, 1897, Glossodoris agassizi (Bergh, 1894), Dentalium agassizi Pilsbry
& Sharp, 1897, Gadila agassizii (Dall, 1881), Meiocardia agassizii
Dall, 1889, Mastigoteuthis agassizii Verrill, 1881, Berthella agassizii
(MacFarland, 1909), Ophidiaster alexandri Verrill, 1915, Rosaster alexandri
(Perrier, 1881), Chuniella agassizi (Bürger, 1909), Astrotoma agassizi
Lyman, Cyphastrea agassizi (Vaughan, 1907), Platynereis agassizi (Ehlers),
Rosaster alexandri (Perrier, 1881) Perrier, 1894, Munidopsis agassizi Faxon,
1893, Rioraja agassizii (Müller & Henle, 1841), Leptochilichthys
agassizii Garman, 1899, Callionymus agassizii Goode & Bean, 1888, Neolithodes
agassizii (Smith, 1882), Pyrostremma agassizi (Ritter & Byxbee, 1905),
Siphonogorgia agassizii Deichmann, 1936, Pacifigorgia agassizii (Verrill,
1864), Siphonogorgia alexandri Nutting, 1908]
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
specie a lui dedicate
[Phascolosoma agassizii Keferstein, 1867, Polydora agassizi Claparède,
1969, Linvillea agassizi (McCrady, 1857), Aglauropsis agassizi Fr. Müller,
1865, Deltocyathus agassizii De Pourtalès, 1867, possibly Steganodermatoides
agassizi (Campbell, 1975), Chlorophthalmus agassizi Bonaparte, 1840]
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Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz (1822 - 1907)
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz came from Massachusetts society and used her knowledge and her social connections to advance the cause of women's education. She was one of the first women to be elected to the American Philosophical Association.
Chronology
1822 She born in Boston, Massachusetts on December 5 to Mary Ann Cushing
Perkins Cary and her husband Thomas Graves Carey, who was a Boston businessman.
She had delicate health and was educated at home. At the proper age, she
entered Boston Society.
After the marriage of her older sister to a Harvard professor, she
joined a group of Cambridge intellectuals. It was here that the met Louis
Agassiz, who was a prominent Swiss scientist teaching at Harvard. Louis
was a widower with three children.
1850 Her name became Elizabeth Cabot Carey Agassiz in this year when she married Louis. It was she who organized the household, took care of the finances and mothered his children from his first marriage. She also worked closely with her husband in his scientific studies. It was a collaborative arrangement.
1856 Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz established a School for girls of Boston in her home on Quincy Street in Cambridge. Her husband helped. He gave lectures as did a number of other Harvard professors. The school remained open for 7 years, closing in 1863.
1865 - 1866 She helped organize and manage the Thayer expedition to Brazil with her husband and both of them wereout of the country for most of the American Civil War. (William James, later to become a well known philosopher , was one of the student interns on the Thayer voyage.)
1867 Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz began corresponding with Arnold Guyot,
a well known geologist and meteorologist who had emigrated to the United
States. Much of this correspondence is in the American Philosophical Society
collection See: Guyot correspondence
1869 On October 15, 1869 Elizabeth Cabot Carey Agassiz was elected a
member of the American Philosophical Society. At this same meeting Mary
Fairfax Somerville and Maria Mitchell were also elected.
1871 - 1872 She helped organize and manage the Hassler Expedition, which was the first important US governement marine exploration. Her husband Louis Agassiz, Dr. Franz Steindacher, Dr. Thomas Hill, Count L. F. de Pourtales and other scientist were all on board the ship. They left Boson in December, traveled to St. Thomas, along the coast of Brazil and through the Straits of Magellan. Much of their collected specimens were given to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, which Louis Agassiz had founded.Elizabeth's notes are the only extant explanations of Louis Agassiz's later theories of glaciation.
1872 Her husband, Louis, dies.
1879 Elizabeth and several other women had been advocating that Harvard open its doors to women. Finally in this year, the Harvard Annex was founded.
1882 She was involved in establishing the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women. She served as president of the Society for 12 years until it became Radcliffe College in 1894
1894 -1903 Sje served as the first president of Radcliff College
1907 Elizabeth Cabot cary Agassiz died in Arlingon, Massachusetts on June 27.
It should be noted that Elizabeth was a Unitarian and is listed among the Unitarian notable women.
works
1859 First Lesson in Natural History
1865 Seaside Studies coauthored with her stepson Alexander
1868 A Journey in Brazil coauthored with her husband
1885 Biography of Louis Agassiz This work is available through Project Gutenberg at Louis Agassiz
Her papers, including her correspondence with Georg Sand, are at Radcliffe
College See: Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz