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Title: Professor Agassiz's lectures. Prof. Agassiz proposes to deliver a course of lectures in Philadelphia, similar to the one just completed by him before the Lowell Institute
Identifier(s): text:822; APSimg6746; Goodman Number: 232
Description: According to the broadside the series of lectures was to be similar to one just completed by Agassiz at the Lowell Institute whose object was "to explain the successive creation of the several divisions of the animal kingdom." Only one year after this lecture series Agassiz returned to America to become professor of zoology and geology at the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard. Lists the following among the 35 members of the lecture committee: J[ohn] K. Kane, R[obert] M. Patterson, Robert Hare, S[amuel] G. Morton, C[harles] D. Meigs, T[homas] D. Mutter, and J[ohn F.] Frazer.; Item call number: B F865.a, no. 17.
Creator: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Source: John Fries Frazer Papers (Mss.B.F865);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Natural history; Creation; Public speaking; Animals
Date: ca. 1846?

Title: Louis Agassiz to John Fries Frazer, July 17, 1862.
Identifier(s): text:140776
Description: Nahant, A.L.S. 2p. (see Frazer papers. Letters from Agassiz, no. 16.) Formerly B F865.a. Friendly letter. Wishes to give lectures in Philadelphia. Film 1249.
Creator: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Subject: Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Date: July 17, 1862

Title: The European works of Professor Agassiz.
Identifier(s): text:545; APSimg6649; Goodman Number: 233
Description: Lists fourteen works, mostly in French, by Agassiz offered for sale at a reduced price until July 1, 1854.; Item call number: 590 Pam. no. 28a.
Creator: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Source: Zoological Pamphlet Collection (590 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Natural history; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Date: ca. 1854

Title: Louis Agassiz to John Fries Frazer, December 24, 1866.
Identifier(s): text:140998
Description: Cambridge, A.L.S. 1p. (see Frazer papers. Letters from Agassiz, no. 20.) Formerly B F865.a. Friendly letter. Film 1249.
Creator: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Subject: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Frazer, John Fries, 1812-1872
Date: December 24, 1866

Title: Private circular. Dear Sir, I take the liberty of asking your aid in circulating the enclosed prospectus
Identifier(s): text:548; APSimg6651; Goodman Number: 235
Description: Cover letter for a prospectus (Goodman #234; 590 Pam. no. 28b). One copy was sent to Dr. M. H. Coates, one to W. H. Farquhar, and the third to Professor [John F.] Frazer. (See 590 Pam. no. 28d & B F865.a no. 11 for the other two copies.) All three contain autograph signatures of Agassiz.; Item call number: 590 Pam. no. 28e.
Creator: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Source: Zoological Pamphlet Collection (590 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Natural history; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Zoology
Date: 1855

Title: The great work of Professor Agassiz. Contributions to the natural history of the United States, by Louis Agassiz. In ten volumes, quarto.... Extracts from the prospectus
Identifier(s): text:546; APSimg6650; Goodman Number: 234
Description: Prospectus for the publication of Agassiz's work on the natural history of the United States of which only 4 volumes of the proposed 10 were published between 1857 and 1862. According to Agassiz's biographer, Edward Lurie, the work was too complex for the general public and too descriptive for the increasing number of naturalists interested in the more theoretical notions proposed in works like those of Charles Darwin. Reproduces notices from several Boston newspapers and the National Intelligencer (Washington).; Item call number: 590 Pam. 28b.
Creator: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Source: Zoological Pamphlet Collection (590 Pam.);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Miscellaneous; Natural history; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Zoology
Date: 1855