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Louis Agassiz letters and portrait

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 14-15-m.82

Scope and content

Collection contains letters from Agassiz to Edwin Percy Whipple concerning Agassiz' interests in a museum and new photographic processes; to Andrew Dickson White concerning the need for adequate university instruction in the United States and making recommendations for faculty appointments at Cornell University; letters to Dom Pedro II; also includes a reprint of the account "Agassiz' Last Lecture at Cornell." Also includes a framed portrait of Agassiz that previously hung in Stimson Hall.