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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: 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: Professor Agassiz proposes to publish the principal results of his investigations of the natural history of the United States
Identifier(s): text:547; APSimg6653; Goodman Number: 245
Description: Cover letter recommending a forthcoming publication by Agassiz, see Goodman #234 (590 Pam. no. 28b) for the prospectus which this letter probably accompanied.; Item call number: 590 Pam. no. 28c.
Creator: Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878
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

Title: Discovery of viviparous fish in Louisiana. New Orleans, Nov. 1, 1854
Identifier(s): text:559; APSimg6645; Goodman Number: 220
Description: Reprinted from the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal.; Item call number: 590 Pam. v. 14, no. 2.
Creator: Dowler, Bennet, 1797-1879
Source: Zoological Pamphlet Collection (590 Pam. v. 14);
Subject: Broadsides ; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: Biological Science; Broadside Subdivision: Zoology; Natural history; Fish
Date: 1854