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Drawings illustrating the Lowell Lectures on comparative embryology [manuscript]

by: Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873; Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873. Twelve lectures on comparative embryology; Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907; Dibner, Bern, former owner. DSI; Goodspeed, George T. DSI; Burndy Library, donor. DSI; Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.) DSI

Publication date: 1849

Topics: Embryology

Collection: biodiversity; smithsonian

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Title devised by cataloger

Additional material includes contemporary envelope with title which previously housed the drawings; correspondence between dealer (George Goodspeed of Goodspeeds Book Shop, Boston) and Dibner dated Nov. 1966, re: verification of handwriting on envelope, including photostats of letters in Mrs. Agassizs hand.

In his letter to Dibner (1966 November 16) Goodspeed asserts his belief that the drawings are by Agassiz, though there is no firm evidence of this

Lectures originally published in newspapers The American traveller and The daily evening traveller (Boston, December 19, 1848 through January 24, 1849); published in book form as Twelve lectures on comparative embryology (Boston, 1849). The illustrations accompanying the published lectures are comparable to these drawings in style and grouping

Additional material includes contemporary envelope with title which previously housed the drawings; correspondence between dealer (George Goodspeed of Goodspeeds Book Shop, Boston) and Dibner dated Nov. 1966, re: verification of handwriting on envelope, including photostats of letters in Mrs. Agassizs hand

Ten drawings (2 bifolia, 6 loose sheets) in ink and watercolor illustrating Agassizs lectures on comparative embryology, delivered before the Lowell Institute in Boston, 1848-49

Provenance: Bern Dibner (donor)