Item: Louis Agassiz letters, 1854-1858
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Finding Aid Title: Louis Agassiz letters, 1854-1858
Finding Aid Collection Number: 2456
Date Range of Collection: 1854-1858
Creator of Materials: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873
Content Description: The letters in this collection focus on Agassiz's efforts to collect fish specimen and eggs (presumably fish eggs) from colleagues throughout New England. The first, written from Cambridge, Massachusetts in April of 1854 to Franklin Benjamin Hough, a physician, author, and chief of the forestry division of the United States Department of Agriculture from 1876-1883, details Agassiz's efforts to collect a wide variety of fish specimen. Another letter, written from Newport, Rhode Island in July 1858, is to John Whipple Potter Jenks. At the time of Agassiz and Jenk's correspondence, Jenks was a professor of zoology at the Boston Horticultural Society (1858-1860). Beginning in 1873, Jenks chaired the department of agricultural zoology at Brown University and was curator of the University's museum collections. In his letter to Jenks, Agassiz apologizes for being unable to stop in Middleboro (Massachusetts?) and requests that Jenks send eggs (presumably fish eggs) by an express messenger so, "that they should not be spoiled."
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv27172
Keywords: trout and salmonids, physicians, authors, agriculture, zoology, eggs, portraits
Subjects: Trout, Salmonids, and Angling History
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