Louis François Pourtalès
1823–80
Swiss-born American naturalist. Joined Louis Agassiz’s group studying Swiss glaciers in 1840; moved to the United States in 1847. Joined the US Coast Survey in 1848, and worked on a variety of hydrographical studies. Took part in deep-sea dredging in the Florida Straits, 1867–9, discovering many corals and echinoderms. A genus of sea urchins was named after him. Keeper of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 1870.
Source
ANB.
Bibliography
ANB: American national biography. Edited by John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. and supplement. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999–2002.
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