Fresh-Water

Fresh-Water Invertebrates of the U.S., 3rd ed., 1989.

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Fresh-Water Invertebrates of the U.S., 3rd ed., 1989.

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Some of the best drawings in the Fossil Fishes and the Fresh-Water Fishes are from her hand.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

Finally, the plates for the first number of my “Fresh-Water Fishes” are in great part finished, and also included in my package for Newcastle ...

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

* (* Probably the plates of the “Fresh-Water Fishes” and other illustrated publications.)

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

I therefore allow the “Fresh-Water Fishes” to lie by and drive on the others.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

The counselor of the Royal Cabinet writes me officially that the king has ordered the same number of copies of the Fresh-Water Fishes as of the Fossil Fishes; that is to say, ten copies.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

Not only was Mr. Dinkel at work upon the plates for the Fresh-Water Fishes, but Mr. J.C. Weber, who was then engaged in making, under Agassiz's direction, the illustrations for the Spix Fishes, was also giving his spare hours to the same objects.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

After much reflection, I have decided that the best way to turn my Fresh-Water Fishes to account, is to finish them completely before offering them to a publisher.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

Professor Arnold Guyot, in his memoir of Agassiz, says of the plates for the “Fresh-Water Fishes”: “We wonder at their beauty, and at their perfection of color and outline, when we remember that they were almost the first essays of the newly-invented art of lithochromy, produced at a time when France and Belgium were showering rewards on very inferior work of the kind, as the foremost specimens of progress in the art.”

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885