Sammlungssteckbrief - Louis Agassiz

Weitere wichtige Sammlungen

• Schweiz–Bern: Naturhistorisches Museum
  
• Schweiz–Neuchâtel: Muséum d'histoire naturelle
  
• USA–Cambridge: Museum of Comparative Zoology
  

Wichtige Werke

• Selecta genera et species piscium (1829)
• Recherches sur les poissons fossiles (1833–1843)
• Monographies d'échinodermes vivants et fossiles (1838–1842)
  
• Histoire naturelle des poissons d'eau douce de l'Europe centrale (1839–1846)
• Études sur les glaciers (1840)
• Études critiques sur les mollusques fossiles (1840–1842)
• Nomenclator zoologicus (1842–1846)
  
• Monographie des poissons fossiles du vieux grès rouge, ou Système Dévonien (Old Red Sandstone) des Îles Britanniques et de Russie (1844–1845)
• Bibliographia zoologiae et geologiae (1848–1854)
• Principles of zoology for the use of schools and colleges (1848)
• Lake Superior: Its physical character, vegetation and animals, compared with those of other and similar regions (1850)
• Contributions to the natural history of the United States (1857–1862)
• An essay on classification (1859)
• A journey in Brazil (1868)

Archive/Nachlässe

• Archives de l'Etat de Neuchâtel, Neuenburg
• Schweizerisches Literaturarchiv, Bern

Sekundärliteratur

• Cary Agassiz, E. (ed.) (1885) Louis Agassiz: His life and correspondence.
  
• Davenport, G. (1963) The intelligence of Louis Agassiz: A specimen book of scientific writings.
  
• Dufour, C. & Haenni, J.-P. (eds) (1983) Louis Agassiz: Naturaliste romantique et les premières collections du Musée d’histoire naturelle Neuchâtel.
  
• Higgins Gladfelter, E. (2002) Agassiz’s legacy: Scientists’ reflection on the value of field experience.
• Holder, C. F. (1893) Louis Agassiz: His life and work.
  
• Kuhn-Schnyder, E. (1975) Louis Agassiz als Paläontologe.
• Lurie, E. (1960) Louis Agassiz: A life in science.
  
• Lurie, E. (1974) Nature and the American mind: Louis Agassiz and the culture of science.
• Marcou, J. (1896) Life, letters and works of Louis Agassiz.
  
• Robinson, M. L. (1939) Runner of the mountain tops: The life of Louis Agassiz.
  
• Winsor, M. J. (1991) Reading the shape of nature: Comparative zoology at the Agassiz museum.
  

Quellen/Webseiten

• Cleevely, R. J. (1983) World palaeontological collections. (ETH-ERD Pa 140)
• Webby, B. D. (1989) Fossil collections of the world: An international guide. (ETH-BIB 845 206)
• Louis Agassiz im Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz
  
• Louis Agassiz im Naturhistorischen Museum Neuenburg