> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 21](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33120114) of TL-2 Vol. I > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/87-1) LSID 87-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122972) QID Q122972 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807-1873), Swiss biologist and geologist, later at Harvard. **Abbreviated name**: *J. Agassiz* \[standard form in IPNI: *Agassiz*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection NEU|NEU]] (early collections from Germany and Switzerland); zoological collections at Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. *Ref*.: IH 2: 28. #### Bibliography and biography Barnart 1: 19; BM 1: 17-18, 6: 7; Bossert p. 4; CSP 1: 23, 27, 6: 562, 7: 12-13, 9: 18, 12: 6, 13: 36-37; DAB 1: 114-122; Jackson p. 365; Kew 1: 19; LS 762; ME 1: 157-158, 3: 526; PR 67-68; SO 171a. - Bliss, Pop. Sci. Monthly 4: 608-618. 1874. - Ratzeburg, Forstwiss. Schriftsteller Lexikon 1-4. 1874. - Mettenius, Alexander Braun's Leben, Berlin 1882 (important source for early activities). - Agassiz, E. C., Louis Agassiz, 2 vols., Boston 1885-1886 (portr.) - Gray, Asa, Sci. Papers 2: 483-490. 1889. - Anon., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1888/90: 31. 1891. - Holder, Louis Agassiz, his life and work, New York, London 1893, xviii, 327 p. (portr., bibl.) - Youmans, Pioneers of science in America, New York 1896 (p. 475-491). - Gould, A. B., Louis Agassiz, Boston 1901 (portr.) - Wittrock, Acta Horti Berg. 3(2): 149, 177. 1903, 3(3): 191. 1905. - Merrill, Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1904: 689, 717. - Mayer, Popular Sci. Monthly 77: 418-446. 1910 (portr.) - Walcott, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 48(2): 31-44. 1912. - Cooper, L., Louis Agassiz as a teacher, Ithaca 1917. - Moreillon, Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sci. nat. 52: 233-235. 1919. - Kelly and Burrage, American Medical biographies 4-7. 1920. - Robinson, Runner of the Mountain Tops, the life of Louis Agassiz, New York 1939, xii, 290 p. - Rodgers, Noble Fellow Sullivant 343 \[index\]. 1940. - Rodgers, John Torrey 335 \[index\]. 1942. - Rodgers, Amer. bot. 1873-1892 p. 323 \[index\]. 1944. - Rodgers, Liberty Hyde Bailey 489 \[index\]. 1949. - Mayr, Harvard Library Bull. 13: 165-194. 1959. - McVaugh, Edward Palmer 54. 1959. - Lurie, Louis Agassiz: a life in science. Chicago 1960 (portr.) - Romer, The New England Quarterly 35(1): \[8p. repr.\] 1962. - Lurie, Editor's Introduction \[to:\] Agassiz, Essay on classification, Cambridge Mass. 1962. - Dexter, Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. 101(1): 27-39. 1965. - Nissen, Zool. Buchill. 13-14. 1966. - Lurie, DSB 1: 72-74. 1970. - Lenley et al., Cat. manuscr. coll. New York Bot. Gard. 2. 1973. - Smit, History of the life sciences 1037 \[index\]. 1974. #### Note For a detailed list of biographical publications on Agassiz see Meisel (ME 1: 157-158); for a detailed bibliography see J. Marcou, Life, letters, and works of L.A., New York 1896 (bibl. p. 258-303), for an up-to-date biographical account see Lurie (1960, 1970) and Nissen (1966). #### Eponymy *Agassizia* Chavannes (1833); *Agassizia* A. Gray & Engelmann (1846-1847); *Agassizia* Spach (1835). ### Publications ##### n.64. Tableau synoptique des principales familles naturelles des plantes **Title** *Tableau synoptique des principales familles naturelles des plantes*, avec indication des genres que l'on trouve en Suisse. Neuchatel (Petitpierre et Prince) 1833. Duod. **Abbreviated title**: *Tabl. syn. fam. nat.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1833 (p. \[4\]: 5 Mai 1833), p. \[1\]-94. *Copy*: NY. *Ref*.: BM 1: 17; PR 68. ##### n.65. An essay on classification **Title** *An essay on classification*. London (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, and Trübner & Co.) 1859. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Essay classific.* **Notes** *Publ*.: Original edition Boston 1857 (*n.v.*), first London edition 1859 (p. viii: 2 Dec 1858; viii, 381 p.), modern edition, by Edward Lurie, Cambridge, Mass. 1962. The London edition was announced on 19 Feb 1859 and reviewed extensively on 7 Mai 1859 by the Literary Gazette. – The Boston edition was published in October 1857 as an introduction to "a larger work": *Contributions to the Natural History of the United States*. The London edition is the first independent issue, containing various additions and amendments. *Ref*.: Kew 1: 19.