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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC01417 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1865-1929 |
| Title | Louis Agassiz to William Claflin regarding a coast survey |
| Date | 18 July 1871 |
| Author | Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873) |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Explains that the United States Coast Survey is attempting to "make us acquainted with the bottom of the Ocean, as thoroughly as we already are with the surface of the Earth." Requests a contribution of $20,000 from Massachusetts Governor Claflin to finance the preservation, for scientific purposes, of specimens discovered in the course of the surveys dredging and fishing along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. |
| Subjects | Maritime Surveying Frontiers and Exploration Science and Technology Finance Wildlife Geography and Natural History |
| People | Agassiz, Louis (1807-1873) Claflin, William (1818-1905) |
| Place written | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Theme | Science, Technology, Invention |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| 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 | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |