Nathaniel Shaler
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Nathaniel Southgate Shaler was an American paleontologist and geologist who wrote extensively on the theological and scientific implications of the theory of evolution, whose work is now considered sc
Shaler in 1894
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.
Nathaniel Shaler
…considered scientific racism. Born to a slave-holding family in Kentucky in 1841, Shaler studied at Harvard College's Lawrence Scientific School under Louis Agassiz. After graduating in 1862, Shaler went on to become a Harvard fixture in his own right, as lecturer (1868), professor of paleontology for two decades…
Agassiz, c. 1865
Portrait by Fritz Zuber-Buhler, 1844
Agassiz (seated) with Benjamin Peirce
Portrait photograph by John Adams Whipple, circa 1865