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Events in December 1873 1
1807 – 1873Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)Died 14 December 1873, aged 66The Swiss-born naturalist and Harvard professor, known for his studies of glaciation and fish fossils, died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He had built one of the era's foremost natural history collections but also promoted scientifically discredited racial theories that drew criticism even in his lifetime.