ichthyology

• Initially, Agassiz focused his considerable abilities on ichthyology -- the study of living and fossil fish.
• I look anxiously for the forth-coming number of your history of the Echinodermata FROM SIR RODERICK MURCHISON June 13, 1842 Your letters have given me great pleasure: first, in assuring me that your zeal in ichthyology is undiminished, and that you are about to give such striking proofs of it to the British Association; and next that you still pursue with enthusiasm your admirable researches upon the glaciers. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
• Should you have occasion to mention this arrangement to the friends of fossil ichthyology, pray do so; it seems to me for the interest of the matter that it should be known. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
• Meantime his contemplated journey to the United States flitted constantly before him AGASSIZ TO THE PRINCE OF CANINO NEUCHATEL, November 19, 1844 Your idea of an illustrated American ichthyology is admirable. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
• However poor his descriptions, he nevertheless first recognized the necessity of multiplying genera in ichthyology, and that at a time when the thing was far more difficult than now. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence

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