PATON, Lucy Allen.

CARY AGASSIZ, a biography.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919. First Edition. 8vo, Pp. 423. Index. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. TEG. Illustrated. Ex library with spine label, stamps. Pocket removed. Corners of cover bumped, cover scuffed and slightly worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w VG. Item #50892

Agassiz (1822-1907) was the first president of Radcliffe College. The wife of renowned Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz, she was the scribe of the Hassler Expedition through the Strait of Magellan (1871-72). She published a biography of her husband in 1885. She worked to establish Radcliffe from 1882 and became its first President in 1893.

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