Louis Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28 1807-December 14 1873) was a Swiss-born American zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists. He was a prominent supporter of polygenism.

Works

• Recherches sur les poissons fossiles (1833-1843)
• History of the Freshwater Fishes of Central Europe (1839-1842)
• Etudes sur les glaciers (1840)
• Etudes critiques sur les mollusques fossiles (1840-1845)
• Nomenclator Zoologicus (1842-1846)
• Monographie des poissons fossiles du Vieux Gres Rouge, ou Systeme Devonien (Old Red Sandstone) des Iles Britanniques et de Russie (1844-1845)
• Bibliographia Zoologiae et Geologiae (1848)
• (with AA Gould) Principles of Zoology for the use of Schools and Colleges (Boston, 1848)
• Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation and Animals, compared with those of other and similar regions (Boston: Gould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1850)
• Natural History of the United States (1847-1862)
• A Journey in Brazil (1868)