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Collection Reference Number GLC02475.01
From Archive Folder Documents concerning American explorers, adventurers and naturalists 
Title Louis Agassiz to unknown about turtle eggs
Date 22 June 1853
Author Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Discusses his observations of and desire to obtain specimens of turtle eggs (species unspecified).
Subjects Science and Technology  Geography and Natural History  Wildlife  
People Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873)  
Place written Cambridge, Massachusetts
Theme Science, Technology, Invention
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Additional Information Biography: Louis Agassiz was a widely-respected, Swiss-born paleontologist and systematist, known as the "father of glaciology" because of his theory of ice ages. In 1846, he became the first professor of zoology and geology at Harvard and established its Natural History Museum.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859