A short distance away from the square lies the Cambridge Common, while the neighborhood north of Harvard and east of Massachusetts Avenue is known as Agassiz in honor of the famed scientist Louis Agassiz.

* Agassiz ( Harvard North ) ( Area 8 ) is bordered on the north by the Somerville border, on the south and east by Kirkland Street, and on the west by Massachusetts Avenue.

It is thought that this event was caused by the final drainage of Lake Agassiz, which had been confined by the glaciers, disrupting the thermohaline circulation of the Atlantic.

The mountainous districts of England, Wales, and Ireland were also considered to constitute centres for the dispersion of glacial debris ; and Agassiz remarked " that great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel ( boulder drift ) is found ; that this gravel was in general produced by the trituration of the sheets of ice upon the subjacent surface, etc.

An ancient glacial lake that formed in the Great Lakes region of North America, Lake Agassiz, is named after him, as are Mount Agassiz in California's Palisades, Mount Agassiz, in the Uinta Mountains, Agassiz Peak in Arizona and in his native Switzerland, the Agassizhorn in the Bernese Alps.

A headland situated in Palmer Land, Antarctica is named in his honor, Cape Agassiz.

A main-belt asteroid named 2267 Agassiz is also named in association with Louis Agassiz.

According to Agassiz there is one species of humans but many different creations of races.

According to Agassiz the conditions in which particular creatures live “ are the conditions necessary to their maintenance, and what among organized beings is essential to their temporal existence must be at least one of the conditions under which they were created ”.

Other evidence of the glacier and Lake Agassiz is the approximately 140 ' drop in elevation from the eastern portion of the county to the western part, near the Red River.

All of North Dakota is in the Northern Lights Council ( NLC ), formed in 1974 when several councils ( Red River Valley Council-Fargo, Lake Agassiz Council-Grand Forks, Missouri Valley Council-Bismarck, and Great Plains Council-Dickinson ) were merged into one.

Built in 1913 with a $ 10, 000 grant from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the Detroit Lakes Public Library is a branch of the Lake Agassiz Regional Library Network ( LARL ).

This is because it lies on the lake bed of glacial Lake Agassiz, which drained between 9, 900 and 11, 000 years ago.

Ulen is the southern terminus of the Agassiz Recreational Trail, a 53-mile multi-use trail built on an abandoned railroad grade which has its northern terminus at Crookston, Minnesota.

Most of the township is part of the glacial moraine that formed the southeast shore of prehistoric Lake Agassiz.

The confluence of the Red and Red Lake RiversEast Grand Forks is located in the flat, fertile Red River Valley which once was a part of historical glacial Lake Agassiz.

Tenney is located in the flat basin of prehistoric Lake Agassiz, a glacial lake that existed at the end of the last Ice Age.

Agassiz Township is a township in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, United States.

This map is now believed to underestimate the extent of the region once overlain by Lake Agassiz.

Other geological and geomorphological evidence for Lake Agassiz can also be seen today.

Spix, who died in 1826, did not live long enough to work out the history of these fish, and Agassiz ( though fresh out of school ) was selected by Martius for this purpose.

In gathering materials for this work Agassiz visited the principal museums in Europe, and meeting Cuvier in Paris, he received much encouragement and assistance from him.

In 1836 the Wollaston Medal was awarded to Agassiz by the council of that society for his work on fossil ichthyology ; and in 1838 he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society.

In the early stages of his career in Neuchatel, Agassiz also made a name for himself as a man who could run a scientific department well.

Agassiz was grateful for the help the women had given him in examining fossil fish specimens during his visit to Lyme Regis in 1834.

The question having attracted the attention of Agassiz, he not only discussed it with Charpentier and Schimper and made successive journeys to the alpine regions in company with them, but he had a hut constructed upon one of the Aar Glaciers, which for a time he made his home, in order to investigate the structure and movements of the ice.

Thus familiarized with the phenomena associated with the movements of recent glaciers, Agassiz was prepared for a discovery which he made in 1840, in conjunction with William Buckland.

Agassiz was a creationist who believed nature had order because God has created it directly and Agassiz viewed his career in science for the search of ideas in the mind of the creator expressed in creation.

Agassiz denied that migration and adaptation could account for the geographical age or any of the past.

According to Agassiz ’ s theory of polygenism animals, plants and humans were all created in “ special provinces ” each having distinct populations of species created in and for that province.

According to Agassiz, the different races were created in different provinces, each race was indigenous to the province it was created in, he cited evidence from Egyptian monuments to prove that fixity of racial types had existed for at least five millennia.

Agassiz believed that the writers of the bible only knew of local events, for example Noah's flood was a local event only known to the regions that were populated by ancient Hebrews, Agassiz claimed the writers of the bible did not know about any events other than what was going on in their own region and their intermediate neighbors.

Agassiz was grateful for the help the women had given him in examining fossil fish specimens during his visit to Lyme Regis in 1834.

The cydippid ctenophore Pleurobrachia bachei A. Agassiz, 1860 was named for him ; it was discovered in 1859 by Alexander Agassiz who was working as an engineer on a ship surveying the United States / Canada boundary between Washington State and British Columbia.

In 2008, Crookston-based Agassiz Energy, LLC, announced that it had postponed indefinitely its plans for a $ 58. 5 million ethanol plant at the junction of the former Great Northern and Soo Line railroads, near the interchange of U. S. Routes 59 and 2.

A return of the ice for some time offered a reprieve, but after retreating north of the Canada – United States border around 10, 000 years ago, Lake Agassiz refilled.

While the text was written by Beebe, the illustrations were provided by several artists: Robert Bruce Horsfall, who had accompanied Beebe on the expedition, painted the environmental scenes for the illustrations ' backgrounds, while the pheasants themselves were painted by other artists including George Edward Lodge, Charles R. Knight, and Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

His attention was directed to the question of the flow of glaciers in 1840 when he met Louis Agassiz at the Glasgow meeting of the British Association, and in subsequent years he made several visits to Switzerland, where he was particularly impressed by Bernhard Studer's theories, and also to Norway for the purpose of obtaining accurate data.

John Muir was seeking corroboration of the continental glaciation theories of Louis Agassiz, whose controversial Etudes sur les Glaciers was published in 1840.

During the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a statue of Agassiz fell from its niche on the front of the Stanford University zoology building.

While Agassiz did much to place the subject on a scientific basis, this classification has been superseded by later work.

They were of intense interest to Agassiz, and formed the subject of a special monograph by him published in 1844 – 45: Monographie des poissons fossiles du Vieux Gres Rouge, ou Systeme Devonien ( Old Red Sandstone ) des Iles Britanniques et de Russie (" Monograph on Fossil Fish of the Old Red Sandstone, or Devonian System of the British Isles and of Russia ").

With the aid of a grant of money from the King of Prussia, Agassiz crossed the Atlantic in the autumn of 1846 with the twin purposes of investigating the natural history and geology of North America and delivering a course of 12 lectures on “ The Plan of Creation as shown in the Animal Kingdom ,” by invitation from J.

Agassiz served as a non-resident lecturer at Cornell while also being on faculty at Harvard.

From this time his scientific studies dropped off, but he was a profound influence on the American branches of his two fields, teaching decades worth of future prominent scientists, including Alpheus Hyatt, David Starr Jordan, Joel Asaph Allen, Joseph Le Conte, Ernest Ingersoll, William James, Nathaniel Shaler, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, Alpheus Packard, and his son Alexander Agassiz, among others.

In 2005 the EGU Division on Cryospheric Sciences established the Louis Agassiz Medal, awarded to individuals in recognition of their outstanding scientific contribution to the study of the cryosphere on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system.

* Essay on Classification, by Louis Agassiz ( 1962, Cambridge )

Gould proposed that much of the research was based more upon the racial and social prejudices of the researchers than upon their scientific objectivity ; that on occasion, researchers such as Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ), Louis Agassiz ( 1807 – 1873 ), and Paul Broca ( 1824 – 1880 ), committed the methodological fallacy of including their personal ( a priori ) expectations to the conclusions, as part of their analytical reasoning.

Later, Agassiz admitted that they had " started on the wrong track ".

The experiment employed eleven scintillation detectors arranged within a circle 460 meters in diameter on the grounds of the Agassiz Station of the Harvard College Observatory.

In 1841, Louis Agassiz, with several scientific friends, established a temporary station on the Unteraar Glacier, and, along with scientific observations on the glaciers, started a series of expeditions.

Remnants of " McCauleyville Beach " of Lake Agassiz, can be found on the eastern portion of the county.