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Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot

naturalist, was born in 1822. In 1850 she was married to Professor Louis Agassiz.

She accompanied her husband on his journey to Brazil in 1865-66; and on the Hassler expedition in 1871-72; and was associated with him in many of his studies and writings. She is the author of A First Lesson in Natural History; Edited Geological Sketches; and also edited Life and Correspondence, of her husband, in two volumes. AGASSIZ, JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE, educator, naturalist, author, was born May 28, 1807, in Switzerland. He was a naturalist of eminence, and the founder of the Museum of Natural History at Cambridge. He was the author of Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles; Lake Superior, Natural History of Fresh Water Fishes of Central Europe; Etudes sur les Glaciers; Système Glacière; Methods of Study in Natural History; Geological Sketches; Structure of Animal Life; and A Journey in Brazil. He died Dec. 14, 1873, in Cambridge, Mass. His grave in Mt. Auburn is marked by a boulder from the glacier of the Aar, and shaded by pine trees brought from Switzerland.