Louis Agassiz
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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.
Agassiz, c. 1865
Portrait by Fritz Zuber-Buhler, 1844
Agassiz (seated) with Benjamin Peirce
Portrait photograph by John Adams Whipple, circa 1865
Alexander Agassiz
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Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. He was the son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz.
Louis Agassiz
…snakes would eat only live animals. His second wife, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, assisted him in preparing his A Journey in Brazil. Along with her stepson, Alexander Agassiz, she wrote Seaside Studies in Natural History and Marine Animals of Massachusetts. Elizabeth wrote at the Strait that "the Hassler pursued her course…
Portrait of Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
Agassiz c. 1860
Castle Hill Inn, Agassiz's Newport cottage