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“IN the death of Louis François de Pourtales science has met a heavy loss. He was the Swiss representative of an old family, which had branches also in France, Prussia, and Bohemia. Trained as an engineer, he cmigrated in early manhood to the United States at nearly the same time as the late Prof. Agassiz, to whom he was much attached, and whose pupil and fellow-worker he was. He entered the Government service in the department of the Coast Survey, and continued in it many years. His talents and industry made him a man of mark, to whom was intrusted much work that required original thought. Especially did he show interest in the problems of deep-sea soundings and the structure of the ocean bottom, an interest that led to profound observations on the physical geography of the Carribean Sea and the Gulf Stream. His papers on this subject were of the first order, and established his reputation in Europe as well as in America.
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MOSELEY, H. Count Pourtales . Nature 22, 322–323 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022322a0
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