1887 LOUIS AGASSIZ Life & Correspondence 2 Vol Set NATURAL RESOURCES CIVIL WAR

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1887 LOUIS AGASSIZ Life & Correspondence 2 Vol Set NATURAL RESOURCES CIVIL WAR:
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LOUIS AGASSIZ - HIS LIFFE AND CORRESPONDENCE - 2 Volume Set - Complete

Author: Edited by Elizabeth Cary Agassiz

Illustrations: Illustrated, with frontispiece plate protected with tissue guard

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Riverside Press, Cambridge

Pages: Volume I - 400 plus advertisements - Volume II - Ends with page number 794 including Index and advertisements (total 794 pages both books

Content - About the Book

Classic Americana Historical Vintage Book –

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-American biologist and geologist recognized as an innovative and prodigious scholar of Earth\'s natural history, with later American writings that have received criticism for their endorsement of scientific racism. Agassiz grew up in Switzerland, and studied and received Doctor of Philosophy and medical degrees at Erlangen and Munich, respectively.

After further studies with Cuvier and Humboldt in Paris, Agassiz proceeded with research leading to his appointment as professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel . ….

After visiting Harvard University mid-career, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1847 and became a professor of zoology and geology at Harvard, and to head its Lawrence Scientific School and found its Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Agassiz made extensive contributions to ichthyological classification (including of extinct species) and to the study of geological history (including to the founding of glaciology), and has become broadly known through study of his thorough regimen of observational data gathering and analysis.

He made vast institutional and scientific contributions to zoology, geology, and related areas—including many multi-volume research series running to thousands of pages ……

NEVERTHELESS, HIS REPUTATION HAS SUFFERED SOMEWHAT IN HINDSIGHT BY THE EVIDENCE OF HIS RESISTANCE TO DARWINIAN EVOLUTION, AND HIS LATER WRITINGS ON HUMAN POLYGENISM

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Book Condition

Color Boards: Blue Slick Vintage Boards, gold glit lettering on the spine, overall good condition, slight scuffing and rubbing, light brown colored end pages, previous owner name in pencil both volumes can easily be removed otherwise Clean and TIGHT - see photos

Gold Glit Top Page Edges

Dark Colored End Pages

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