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Agassiz, was See also: born in Neuchatel, See also: Switzerland, on the 17th of See also: December 1835
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He came to. the
See also: United States with his See also: father in 1846; graduated at Harvard in 1855, subsequently studying See also: engineering and chemistry, and taking the degree of bachelor of science at the See also: Lawrence scientific school of the same institution in 1857; and in 1859 became an assistant in the United States See also: Coast Survey
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Thenceforward he became a specialist in marine ichthyology, but devoted much See also: time to the investigation, superintendence and exploitation of mines, being See also: superintendent of the Calumet and Hecla -copper mines, Lake See also: Superior, from 1866 to 1869, and afterwards, as a stockholder, acquiring a See also: fortune, out of which he gave to Harvard, for the museum of See also: comparative zoology and other purposes, some $500,000
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In 1875 he surveyed Lake Titicaca, See also: Peru, examined the copper mines of Peru and Chile, and ma:3e a collection of Peruvian antiquities for that museum, of which he was curator from 1874 to 1885
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He assisted See also: Sir Wyville See also: Thomson in the examination and See also: classification of the collections of the " Challenger " exploring expedition, and wrote the Review of the Echini (2 vols., 1872-1874) in the reports
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Between 1877 and 188o he took See also: part in the three dredging expeditions of the steamer " Blake," of the United States Coast Survey, and presented a full account of them in two volumes (1888)
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Of hiss other writings on marine zoology, most are contained in the bulletins and See also: memoirs of the museum of comparative zoology; but he published in 1865 (with See also: Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, his step-
See also: mother) Seaside Studies in Natural See also: History, a See also: work at once exact" and stimulating,' and in 1871 Marine Animals of Massachusetts See also: Bay
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