Hall of Fame: Alexander Agassiz

Biographical info Name: Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz Born: 1835; Died: 1910 Major Accomplishments: The son of Louis Agassiz, he earned degrees in natural history and engineering at Harvard University, and worked as a mining engineer and a professor. He succeeded his father as director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, and established a marine laboratory at Newport Rhode Island. As Commander of the Albratross Expeditions to the Tropical Pacific, he was directly and indirectly responsible for the discovery of many medusa species. His collaborators on the medusae included A.G. Mayer, H.B. Bigelow, and J.W. Fewkes (though he had particular contempt for Fewkes!). Honorific taxa: Autolylus alexandri Malmgren, 1867 Plutonaster agassizi (Verrill, 1880) Echinus alexandri Danielssen & Koren, 1883 Paelopatides agassizi Théel, Chrysogorgia agassizii (Verrill, 1883) Alexandromenia agassizi Heath,1911 Actinopyga agassizii (Selenka) Ampelisca agassizi (Judd, 1896) Solenocera agassizii Faxon, 1893 Nephropsis agassizi A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 Coutiera agassizi (Coutière, 1901) Anacalliax agassizi (Biffar, 1971) ?Thamnostoma alexandri (Mayer, 1904) Timoides agassizi Bigelow, 1904 [Cnidaria: Hydrozoa] Phascolosoma (Phascolosoma) agassizii Keferstein, 1867 Dionchus agassizi Goto, 1899 Colobomatus agassizi (Richiardi, 1877) Galathea agassizii A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 Gymnobela agassizi Verrill & Smith, 1980 Opisthoteuthis agassizi Verrill, 1883 Pylocheles (Pylocheles) agassizii A. Milne Edwards, 1880 Cocculina agassizi Dall, 1908 Bartschia agassizi (Clench & Aguayo, 1941) Agatrix agassizii (Dall, 1889) Borsonella agassizi (Dall, 1908) Pleurotomella agassizii Verrill & Smith, 1880 Pleurobranchaea agassizii Bergh, 1897 Glossodoris agassizi (Bergh, 1894) Dentalium agassizi Pilsbry & Sharp, 1897 Gadila agassizii (Dall, 1881) Meiocardia agassizii Dall, 1889 Mastigoteuthis agassizii Verrill, 1881 Berthella agassizii (MacFarland, 1909) Ophiaster alexandri Verrill, 1915 Rosaster alexandri (Perrier, 1881) Chuniella agassizi (Bürger, 1909) Astrotoma agassizi Lyman, Cyphastrea agassizi (Vaughan, 1907)

 

 

LINKS

Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names (BEMON)

Lefalophodon - An Informal History of Evolutionary Biology Web Site

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Agassiz, A. (1865). “North American Acalephae.” Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard College 1(2): i-xiv, 1-234.

Agassiz, A. (1862). “The Acalephan fauna of the southern coast of Massachusetts (Buzzard's Bay).” Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 8: 224-226.

Agassiz, A. (1862). “(communication to the President in the chair).” Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 9: 180-181. [Original description of Nanomia cara (Hydrozoa: Siphonophora)].

Agassiz, A. (1862). “On the mode of development of the marginal tentacles of the free medusae of some hydroids.” Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 9: 14 pp., 31 figs.

Agassiz, A. (1863). “(communication to the President in the chair).” Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 9: 219-??

Agassiz, A. (1880). “Review of "Das System der Medusen" (Erste Halfte des ersten Theils; System der Craspedoten) von Dr. Ernst Haeckel.” American Journal of Science 19(March): 245-248.

Agassiz, A., (1883). “Exploration of the surface fauna of the Gulf Stream. III. Part 1. The Porpitidae and Velellidae.” Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 8(2): 16 pp. + 12 plates.

Agassiz, A. (1888). “Three cruises of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer "Blake" in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, and along the Atlantic Coast of the United States, from 1877 to 1880.” Bull. MCZ 15: acalephes pp. 128-135.

Agassiz, A. (1889). “Review of Haeckel's System der Medusen.” Am. Journ. Sci. 19: 245-248.

Agassiz, A. and A. G. Mayer (1898). “On Dactylometra.” Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard University) 32: 1-11 + 13 plates.

Agassiz, A. and A. G. Mayer (1898). “On some medusae from Australia.” Bull. Mus. Compar. Zool. (Harvard Univ.) 32: 13-19, + 3 plates.

Agassiz, A. and A. G. Mayer (1899). “Acalephs from the Fiji Islands.” Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 32(9): 157-189, + 17 plates.

Agassiz, A. and A. G. Mayer (1902). “Reports of the scientific research expedition to the tropical Pacific. U.S. Fish Comm. St. Albatross, 1899-1900. III. The Medusae.” Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harv. 26(3): 139-176, 14 pls.

Agassiz, A. and W. M. Woodworth (1896). “Some variations in the genus Eucope.” Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 30(2): 121-150 + 9 plates.

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