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See also:AGASSIZ, See also:ALEXANDER EMANUEL (1835-191o) , See also:American See also:man of See also:science, son of J. L. R. Agassiz, was See also:born in See also:Neuchatel, See also:Switzerland, on the 17th of See also:December 1835. He came to. the
See also:United States with his See also:father in 1846; graduated at Harvard in 1855, subsequently studying See also:engineering and See also:chemistry, and taking the degree of See also:bachelor of science at the See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence scientific school of the same institution in 1857; and in 1859 became an assistant in the United States See also:Coast Survey. Thenceforward he became a specialist in marine See also:ichthyology, but devoted much See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to the investigation, superintendence and exploitation of mines, being See also:superintendent of the See also:Calumet and Hecla -See also:copper mines, See also:Lake See also:Superior, from 1866 to 1869, and afterwards, as a stockholder, acquiring a See also:fortune, out of which he gave to Harvard, for the museum of See also:comparative See also:zoology and other purposes, some $500,000. In 1875 he surveyed Lake Titicaca, See also:Peru, examined the copper mines of Peru and See also:Chile, and ma:3e a collection of Peruvian antiquities for that museum, of which he was See also:curator from 1874 to 1885. He assisted See also:Sir Wyville See also:Thomson in the examination and See also:classification of the collections of the " Challenger " exploring expedition, and wrote the See also:Review of the Echini (2 vols., 1872-1874) in the reports. Between 1877 and 188o he took See also:part in the three dredging expeditions of the steamer " See also:Blake," of the United States Coast Survey, and presented a full See also:account of them in two volumes (1888). Of hiss other writings on marine zoology, most are contained in the bulletins and See also:memoirs of the museum of comparative zoology; but he published in 1865 (with See also:Elizabeth See also:Cary Agassiz, his step-See also:mother) Seaside Studies in Natural See also:History, a See also:work at once exact" and stimulating,' and in 1871 Marine Animals of See also:Massachusetts See also:Bay.
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