Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz (Classic Reprint)
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Letters and Recollections of Alexander Agassiz Any one who attempts to present a faithful impression of Alexander Agassiz´s life is confronted with unusual difficulties, for his 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 collections of marine life gathered in a dozen extended voyages 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 university in America; while those who delve among ancient civilizations and primitive races might well be surprised at the extent of his poaching in their preserves, a mere détour in his many wanderings in the pursuit of science or search of health. In the world of affairs he was known as an extremely capable and successful mining man, who was said to employ his leisure moments in some sort of scientific study. When I first began to collect material for a life of my father, I hoped that it would be possible to tell it in his. own words. But grave objections to such a plan soon appeared; one of the foremost being the mysterious disappearance of most of his later correspondence with his stepmother. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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