April 17, 2024
CDV - Dr.Louis AGASSIZ w/1866 ticket for BRAZIL lecture
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Superb 1860's cdv of Harvard naturalist Dr.Louis Agassiz along with a ticket to attend his lectures on Brazil at the Lowell Institute on Oct. 23,1866.The most prominent antievolutionist in America, indeed in the world, in the years after the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species the Swiss immigrant Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was brilliant and controversial. Already a world-renowned authority on fossil fishes and glaciers when he moved to the United States in 1846, Agassiz soon acquired a professorship at Harvard University and established himself as the leading man of science in the United States.Despite his own unorthodox beliefs, Agassiz became the darling of Christian antievolutionists in the 1860s and early 1870s. His death in 1873 deprived opponents of evolution of their leading scientific spokesman.Under its first trustee, the founder's nephew, John Amory Lowell (1798-1881), the Lowell Institute flourished in Boston. Lowell was both a man of extraordinary financial acumen and a man of high intellect. The list of Lowell Lecturers during his tenure was a veritable pantheon of the most internationally celebrated figures in science, literature, political economy, philosophy, and theology, including Britain's most celebrated geologist, Sir Charles Lyell, Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz, and novelists Charles Dickens and
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