3-065-559 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Professor Agassiz, 1874. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Maull and Co, of an 'eminent natural philosopher...He was a Swiss, who had lived in America during the past quarter of a century...[He conducted] researches into the nature and classification of fishes, and more especially of the salmonidae and of the fresh-water fishes of Central Europe...[and] came to England to study the fossil strata of this country and its treasures, issuing, in 1844, an elaborate account of those discovered in the old red sandstone of the Devonian system...From these studies he passed to another branch of natural history - the study of the glacial system of his native mountains...Since 1838 he had held the Professorship of Natural History at Neufchatel...[In] 1847 he was invited to Boston, United States, to occupy a similar chair in the Harvard University of Cambridge. In 1852 he was appointed to the Professorship of Comparative Anatomy in the Medical College of Charleston, South Carolina'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.