Agassiz, LOUIS

JOHN RUDOLPH, M.D., LL.D., 1807-1873. Swi naturalist; prof. Harvard 1848; celebrated for his studies of the fishes of Brazil, 1829; fresh water fishes of central Europe, 1839; fo il fishes, 1844; Echinoderms, 1840; and the glacial the theory, 1840-46. He pub. four folio vols. on Natural History History of U. S., 1857-62; a Zoology, and a Catalogue of Zoological and Geological Memoirs. He visited Brazil 1865, the southern shores of N. America 1871. The Marine Laboratory of Biology was started 1872 on Penikese Island, which, though short-lived, was the real ancestor of six marine laboratories now located on our coast. Although an opponent of Darwin, his investigations in embryology have done more to establish the evolution doctrine than the work of any one man. Great as is his name as a discoverer in the field of Natural History, it is as a teacher that his influence has been greatest; a great educational movement in America is directly the result of his labors. Every teacher of Biology in America owes his best methods, enthusiasm, inspiration and succe either directly to Aga iz or to his influence. The influence of Huxley on biological education in America has secondarily been grafte grafted upon this original stem.