Reports on an Exploration off the West Coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and Off the Galapagos Islands, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross" During 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., Commanding. The Panamic Deep Sea Echini by Agassiz, Alexander - 1904

Cambridge, MA: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 1904. First edition.

2 FOLIO VOLUMES ON THE ANATOMY OF SEA URCHINS WITH OVER 100 LITHOGRAPHIC AND HELIOTYPE PLATES BY ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, CURATOR OF THE HARVARD MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.

Two volumes 12 inches tall, printed paper covers, Vol. I Text, 243 pp, 319 figures; Vol. II Atlas, 111 lithographic and heliotype plates (2 color), 1 color folding map; paper covers soiled, edges chipped, lacking back paper cover and lower corner of front cover and first 2 leaves of Vol. I, text pages and plates intact and clean, no library or ownership marks, very good minus in custom archival mylar covers. HEAVY SET WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.

ALEXANDER AGASSIZ (1835 – 1910), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. Agassiz was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States with his father, Louis, in 1849. He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, subsequently studying engineering and chemistry, and taking the degree of bachelor of science at the Lawrence scientific school of the same institution in 1857; and in 1859 became an assistant in the United States Coast Survey. Thenceforward he became a specialist in marine ichthyology. Agassiz was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1862 Up until the summer of 1866, Agassiz worked as an assistant in the museum of natural history that his father founded at Harvard. In 1875, he surveyed Lake Titicaca, Peru, examined the copper mines of Peru and Chile, and made a collection of Peruvian antiquities for the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), of which he was first curator from 1874 to 1885 and then director until his death in 1910. Between 1877 and 1880 he took part in the three dredging expeditions of the steamer Blake of the Coast Survey, and presented a full account of them in two volumes (1888). In 1896 Agassiz visited Fiji and Queensland and inspected the Great Barrier Reef, publishing a paper on the subject in 1898.