Alcott served as a pallbearer along with Louis Agassiz, James Thomas Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and others.

Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz ( December 17, 1835 – March 27, 1910 ), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.

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.

The ancient jawless fish Cephalaspis lyelli, which dwelt in the lochs of Scotland, was named by Louis Agassiz in honour of Lyell.

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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873 ) was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history.

Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier ( now part of Haut-Vully ) in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Louis Agassiz

Louis Agassiz

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

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 )

* Pictures and texts of Excursions et séjours dans les glaciers et les hautes régions des Alpes and of Nouvelles études et expériences sur les glaciers actuels by Louis Agassiz can be found in the database VIATIMAGES.

* " Geographical Distribution of Animals ", by Louis Agassiz ( 1850 )

* Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz, by Mabel Louise Robinson ( 1930 ) – free download at manybooks. net

* Louis Agassiz Correspondence, Houghton Library, Harvard University

* 1807 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss zoologist and geologist ( d. 1873 )

* 1910 – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist ; son of Louis Agassiz ( b. 1835 )

* Louis Agassiz ( 1807 – 1873 ), the author of a glacial theory which disputed the notion of a steady-cooling Earth.

Juvenile ( left ), male ( center ), female ( right ), by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Some remained in politics: Mackenzie Bowell continued to serve as a senator ; R. B. Bennett moved to the United Kingdom after being elevated to the House of Lords ; and a number led Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian parliament: John A. Macdonald, Arthur Meighen, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, all before being re-appointed as premier ( Mackenzie King twice ); Alexander Mackenzie and John Diefenbaker, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths ; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post ; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private business.

Louis, Grand Condé | Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, was the premier prince du sang during his lifetime ( painted by Joost van Egmont ).

He was born in Paris, the son of Auguste Casimir-Perier and the grandson of Casimir Pierre Perier, premier of Louis Philippe.

Note that second cornet was the logical and quite demanding seat for the premier cornetist in a two-cornet band, as evidenced by Louis Armstrong's role ( one example of many ) in similar sized bands and orchestras around the same period.

However, the position of premier prince devolved upon the ducs d ' Orléans in 1710, so the seventh Prince, Louis III ( 1668 – 1710 ) declined to make use of the title, preferring instead to be known by his hereditary peerage of Duke of Bourbon, which still afforded him the right to be known as Monsieur le Duc.

Sloane Street is quickly catching up with Bond Street as one of London's premier shopping destinations, housing a variety of high-end fashion or jewellery boutiques such as Cartier, Tiffany & Co, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Gucci, Harrods, Dior, Louis Vuitton, Jimmy Choo, Giorgio Armani, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, Valentino, Bvlgari, Gianni Versace, Graff.

Born in Nyon, Vaud, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, to a French father and a Swiss mother, Cortot studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Émile Descombes ( an associate and possibly a student of Frédéric Chopin ), and with Louis Diémer, taking a premier prix in 1896.

To prevent this, Louis XVIII decided on a modification of the franchise ; the Marquis Dessolles ministry resigned ; and the first act of Count Decazes, the new premier, was to annul the election of Grégoire.

* Louis J. Robichaud, 24th premier of New Brunswick

* July 12 – Louis Robichaud becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Hugh John Flemming

* April 25-Sir William Wilfred Sullivan becomes premier of Prince Edward Island, replacing Sir Louis Davies

* Louis Roule: Lacépède, professeur au Muséum, premier grand chancellier de la Légion d ' honneur, et la sociologie humanitaire selon la nature.

Despite efforts by Louis Robichaud, an Acadian who served as the province's premier between the 1960 and 1970 elections, to modernize through investment in education and business promotion by instituting what was called an equal opportunity program, some Acadians felt they would be better served by their own administration.

His father, a colonel of the Auvergne regiment, was appointed a premier gentilhomme de la chambre to King Louis XVI of France's younger brother, the Comte de Provence, in 1780.

After three years of foreign travel, he entered Queen Marie Antoinette's Regiment of Dragoons and the next year assumed his aged grandfather's place at court as a premier gentilhomme de la chambre to King Louis XVI of France.

Because of an unwillingness on the part of various nobles to serve in the royal household, King Louis XVI soon afterwards summoned him back to Paris in order for him to resume his position as a premier gentilhomme at the Tuileries Palace.

At night, horse drawn carriages and live music add to the atmosphere of one of the premier entertainment areas in St. Louis.

He adapted this style to the grand decorative scheme of the era of Louis XIII and Richelieu and was made premier peintre du Roi.

The premier event — the Gordon Bennett Trophy — was won by Glenn Curtiss, who beat second place finisher Louis Blériot by five seconds.

He was the principal assistant to his father as Premier Architecte at Versailles from 1735 and succeeded him in the position in 1742, essentially making him the premier architect of France, a role he retained for most of the reign of Louis XV.

Louis XVIII made Bosio a Knight of the Order of Saint Michael in 1821 and appointed him premier sculpteur du Roi.

As one of the premier Southern railroads, the L & N extended its reach far beyond its namesake cities, stretching to St. Louis, Missouri ; Memphis, Tennessee ; Atlanta, Georgia ; and New Orleans, Louisiana.

The historic Green Diamond name continued as the premier passenger train on the Illinois Central's Chicago-St. Louis route until May 1968.