Letters And Recollections Of Alexander Agassiz With A Sketch Of His Life And Work
Автор:G. R. Agassiz Год: 2009 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 502 ISBN: 1113205296 LETTEBS AKD EECOLLECTIO S OF ALEXANDER AGASSIZ WITH A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND WORK EDITED BY G. R. AGASSIZ WITH PORTRAITS AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY GEORGE R. AGASSI2 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published October IQI PREFACE who attempts to present a faithful impression of Alexander Agassizs life is confronted with unusual difficulties, for Ms versatile and restless energy covered a very extraordinarily wide field, and his personality was so large that we are hampered in our view of him by our own limitations. The morphologist considers his earlier work the most important the geologist, that his reputation rests chiefly on his extensive investigations of coral reefs the zoologist remembers his vast collec tions of marine life gathered in a dozen extended voy ages widely scattered over the surface of the globe and to still others he appears as the creator of a vast museum and one of the greatest benefactors of the oldest univer sity...
