Agassiz,
Alexander                 Maximillian
b. Neuchatel, Switzerland,
December 17, 1835
d. Onboard "The Adriatic",
March 27, 1910
b. Cambridge, MA, 
May 24, 1866
d. Newport, RI, 
September 21, 1943


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"Maximilian Agassiz Dies At His Home Here," Newport Daily News, 22 September 1943. 

"Noted Newporter Dead in 77th Year," Providence Journal, 22 September 1943. 

Amacker, Milton W. "A Century at Castle Hill," The Rhode Island Yearbook '74. Providence: The Rhode Island Yearbook Foundation, Inc., 1973. 56-59. 

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Jordy, William H. and Christopher P. Monkhouse. Buildings on Paper: Rhode Island Architectural Drawings 1825-1945. Brown University, The Rhode Island Historical Society, Rhode Island School of Design, 1982. 147. 

Lillie, Frank R. The Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944. 22, 23. 

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National Cyclopedia of American Biography.  New York: James T. White and Company, 1891. Vol. III: 99. 

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