Record

CodePX22
Dates1807-1873
Person NameAgassiz; Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807-1873); Palaeontologist and biologist
SurnameAgassiz
ForenamesJean Louis Rodolphe
EpithetPalaeontologist and biologist
ActivityProfessor at the Lyceum Neuchatel, Switzerland 1932 working on palaeontology, systematics and glaciology. Accepted a professorship at Harvard 1848 and founded the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard in 1859 which opened in 1860. He helped with the creation of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC and was appointed a regent of the Smithsonian Institution in 1863. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Catalogue
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DF/PAL/100/4/1Agassiz, J. R. L.
DF/PAL/105/2/3Plaster casts from the types of Echinida in J L R Agassiz & ?Dew's Catalogue Raisonne
WP/17/5/14Louis Agassiz
DF/ZOO/200/1/9Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe
DF/ZOO/200/33/369-370Van Oppen and Company
DF/PAL/105/1/1Species of Echinides found in the chalk of Switzerland, from JLR Agassiz
DF/PAL/120/8/6Lord Enniskillen (Enniskillen, Ireland)
DF/PAL/123/1/72Bather, Francis Arthur: Leslie Bairstow's report on Agassiz' echinoderm casts
DF/ZOO/202/1'Miscellaneous documents': letters, lists, memoranda and reports relating to the work of the department, gathered by Dr A Günther
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