ALEXANDER EMANUEL

See also:

• ALEXANDER EMANUEL AGASSIZ (1835-191o)
• AGASSIZ, JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE (1807-1893)

AGASSIZ (1835-191o)  , American man of science, son of J . L . R . Agassiz, was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland, on the 17th of December 1835 . He came to. the United States with his father in 1846; graduated at Harvard in 1855, subsequently studying engineering and chemistry, and taking the degree of bachelor of science at the Lawrence scientific school of the same institution in 1857; and in 1859 became an assistant in the United States Coast Survey . Thenceforward he became a specialist in marine ichthyology, but devoted much time to the investigation, superintendence and exploitation of mines, being superintendent of the Calumet and Hecla -copper mines, Lake Superior, from 1866 to 1869, and afterwards, as a stockholder, acquiring a fortune, out of which he gave to Harvard, for the museum of comparative zoology and other purposes, some $500,000 . In 1875 he surveyed Lake Titicaca, 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 . He assisted Sir Wyville Thomson in the examination and classification of the collections of the " Challenger " exploring expedition, and wrote the Review of the Echini (2 vols., 1872-1874) in the reports . Between 1877 and 188o he took 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) . Of hiss other writings on marine zoology, most are contained in the bulletins and memoirs of the museum of comparative zoology; but he published in 1865 (with Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, his step-mother) Seaside Studies in Natural History, a work at once exact" and stimulating,' and in 1871 Marine Animals of Massachusetts Bay .