Louis Agassiz's Arguments against Darwinism in His Additions to the French Translation of the Essay on Classification

Journal of the History of Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 121-134

  Morris, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1023/A:1004274730193     Document Type: Article

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1. Mary P. Winsor, Reading the Shape of Nature: Comparative Zoology at the Agassiz Museum (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991).
2. See, for example, C. T. Jackson, "February 15, 1860," Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 7 (1861), 231-235; W. N. Rice, "Darwin's Theory of the Origin of Species," New Englander, 24 (1867), 607-633.
3. See, for example, C. T. Jackson, "February 15, 1860," Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 7 (1861), 231-235; W. N. Rice, "Darwin's Theory of the Origin of Species," New Englander, 24 (1867), 607-633.
4. Edward Lurie, Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1960); Ernst Mayr, "Agassiz, Darwin, and volution," Harvard Lib. Bull., 13 (1959), 165-194.
5. Edward Lurie, Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1960); Ernst Mayr, "Agassiz, Darwin, and volution," Harvard Lib. Bull., 13 (1959), 165-194.
6. Mary P. Winsor, Starfish, Jellyfish, and the Order of Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976, pp. 24-50); idem, "Louis Agassiz and the Species Question," Stud. Hist. Biol., 3 (1979), 89-117; idem, Reading the Shape of Nature (above, n. 1); Steven J. Gould, "Agassiz's Later, Private Thoughts on Evolution: His Marginalia in Haeckel's Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte (1868)," in Two Hundred Years of Geology in America: Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology, ed. Cecil J. Schannder (Hanover: Univ. Press of New England, 1979), pp. 277-282.
7. Mary P. Winsor, Starfish, Jellyfish, and the Order of Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976, pp. 24-50); idem, "Louis Agassiz and the Species Question," Stud. Hist. Biol., 3 (1979), 89-117; idem, Reading the Shape of Nature (above, n. 1); Steven J. Gould, "Agassiz's Later, Private Thoughts on Evolution: His Marginalia in Haeckel's Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte (1868)," in Two Hundred Years of Geology in America: Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology, ed. Cecil J. Schannder (Hanover: Univ. Press of New England, 1979), pp. 277-282.
8. Mary P. Winsor, Starfish, Jellyfish, and the Order of Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976, pp. 24-50); idem, "Louis Agassiz and the Species Question," Stud. Hist. Biol., 3 (1979), 89-117; idem, Reading the Shape of Nature (above, n. 1); Steven J. Gould, "Agassiz's Later, Private Thoughts on Evolution: His Marginalia in Haeckel's Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte (1868)," in Two Hundred Years of Geology in America: Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology, ed. Cecil J. Schannder (Hanover: Univ. Press of New England, 1979), pp. 277-282.
9. Mary P. Winsor, Starfish, Jellyfish, and the Order of Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976, pp. 24-50); idem, "Louis Agassiz and the Species Question," Stud. Hist. Biol., 3 (1979), 89-117; idem, Reading the Shape of Nature (above, n. 1); Steven J. Gould, "Agassiz's Later, Private Thoughts on Evolution: His Marginalia in Haeckel's Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte (1868)," in Two Hundred Years of Geology in America: Proceedings of the New Hampshire Bicentennial Conference on the History of Geology, ed. Cecil J. Schannder (Hanover: Univ. Press of New England, 1979), pp. 277-282.
10. Louis Agassiz, "Individuality and Specific Difference among Acalephs," in idem, Contributions to the Natural History of the United States, Vol. III (Boston: Little, Brown, 1860), pp. 88-99; idem, "Evolution and the Permanence of Type," Atlantic Monthly, 33 (1874), 92-101.
11. Louis Agassiz, "Individuality and Specific Difference among Acalephs," in idem, Contributions to the Natural History of the United States, Vol. III (Boston: Little, Brown, 1860), pp. 88-99; idem, "Evolution and the Permanence of Type," Atlantic Monthly, 33 (1874), 92-101.
12. Louis Agassiz, "Individuality and Specific Difference among Acalephs," in idem, Contributions to the Natural History of the United States, Vol. III (Boston: Little, Brown, 1860), pp. 88-99; idem, "Evolution and the Permanence of Type," Atlantic Monthly, 33 (1874), 92-101.
13. Mayr, "Agassiz, Darwin" (above, n. 3).
14. Winsor, "Louis Agassiz and the Species Question" (above, n. 4).
15. See Mayr, "Agassiz, Darwin" (above, n. 3); Lurie, Louis Agassiz (above, n. 3); Peter J. Bowler, The Invention of Progress (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), pp. 174-175.
16. Gould, "Agassiz's Later, Private Thoughts" (above, n. 4).
17. Louis Agassiz, De l'espèce et de la classification en zoologie [Essay on classification], trans. Felix Vogeli (Paris: Ballière, 1869), pp. 375-391.
18. See Gould, "Agassiz's Later, Private Thought" (above, n. 4).
19. See Mayr, "Agassiz, Darwin" (above, no. 3); Lurie, Louis Agassiz (above, n. 3); Winsor, Starfish, Jellyfish (above, n. 4).
20. Louis Agassiz, "Essay on Classification," in idem, Contributions to the Natural History of the United States, vol. I (Boston: Little, Brown, 1857), pp. 3-232 (this work was reprinted by Harvard University Press in 1962).
21. Louis Agassiz, "Essay on Classification," in idem, Contributions to the Natural History of the United States, vol. I (Boston: Little, Brown, 1857), pp. 3-232 (this work was reprinted by Harvard University Press in 1962).
22. Agassiz, De l'espèce (above, n. 10).
23. Ibid., pp. 100-107.
24. For example, Agassiz, "Individuality" (above, n. 5), p. 95.
25. Agassiz, De l'espèce (above, n. 10), pp. 205-213.
26. Louis Agassiz, "Sketch of the Natural Provinces of the Animal World and Their Relation to the Different Types of Man," Edinburgh New Phil. J., 2nd ser., 57 (1854), 347-363.
27. Agassiz, De l'espèce, p. 213.
28. Asa Gray, "Review of Darwin's Theory on the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection," Amer. J. Sci. Arts, 2nd ser., 29 (1860), 155.
29. See Mayr, "Agassiz, Darwin" (above, n. 3); Lurie, Louis Agassiz (above, n. 3); Peter J. Bowler, Evolution, the History of an Idea (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), p. 148.
30. Winsor, "Louis Agassiz and the Species Question" (above, n. 4).
31. Winsor, Reading the Shape of Nature (above, n. 1), pp. 719-727.
32. Agassiz, De l'espèce (above, n. 10), pp. 375-394.
33. Lurie, Louis Agassiz (above, n. 3), p. 59.
34. Mayr, "Agassiz, Darwin" (above, n. 3), p. 165.
35. Agassiz, De l'espèce (above, n. 10), p. 377.
36. Ibid., p. 380.
37. Winsor, Reading the Shape of Nature (above, n. 1), pp. 19-21.
38. See Winsor, Starfish, Jellyfish (above, n. 4), pp. 1-288.
39. Agassiz, "Individuality" (above, n. 5); also published as: Louis Agassiz, "Prof. Agassiz on the Origin of Species," Amer. J. Sci. Arts, 2nd ser., 30 (1860), 142-154.
40. Agassiz, "Individuality" (above, n. 5); also published as: Louis Agassiz, "Prof. Agassiz on the Origin of Species," Amer. J. Sci. Arts, 2nd ser., 30 (1860), 142-154.
41. Louis Agassiz, Geological Sketches, vol. I (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866), pp. 39-41.
42. See Rudolf A. Raff and Thomas C. Kaufman, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution (New York: Macmillan, 1983), p. 395.
43. Agassiz, De l'espèce (above, n. 19), p. 387.
44. Ibid., p. 385.
45. Wilson N. Stewarts, Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), p. 46.
46. Agassiz, "Evolution and the Permanence of Type" (above, n. 5); Gould, "Agassiz's Later, Private Thoughts" (above, n. 4).
47. Agassiz, "Evolution and the Permanence of Type" (above, n. 5); Gould, "Agassiz's Later, Private Thoughts" (above, n. 4).
48. Bruce Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, 3rd ed. (New York: Garland, 1994), p. 33.
49. Alcide d'Orbigny, Cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphiques (Paris: Victor Masson, 1849), pp. 155-157.
50. Agassiz, Geological Sketches (above, n. 32), p. 139.
51. See Lurie, Louis Agassiz (above, n. 3), pp. 58-71.
52. Agassiz, De l'espèce (above, n. 10), p. 391.
53. Winsor, "Louis Agassiz and the Species Question" (above, n. 4).
54. Mayr, "Agassiz, Darwin" (above, n. 3); Gould, "Agassiz's Later, Private Thoughts" (above, n. 4).
55. Winsor, "Louis Agassiz and the Species Question" (above, n. 4), p. 104.