Agassiz (Agass`iz) , a celebrated Swiss naturalist, in the department especially of ichthyology, and in connection with the glaciers; settled as a professor of zoology and geology in the United States in 1846 (1807‒1873).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Aga`sias * Ag`athe, St.