Pound admired Agassiz for his advocacy of exact observation. In ABC OF READING (New Directions, 19th printing) and LITERARY ESSAYS OF EZRA POUND (9th printing), the editors identified Agassiz as Louis Agassiz(1807-73) as printed in their indices. Also, Kenner (in POUND ERA) and Carpenter (in EZRA POUND) described him as Louis Agassiz. However, in A COMPANION TO THE CANTOS OF EZRA POUND (1993 paperback edtion), Agassiz is noted as Alexander Emannuel Agassiz(1835-1910). I think it is a little confusing. Louis Agassiz was the father of Alexander. According to EDWARD SYLVESTER MORSE A BIOGRAPHY( Wayman : Harvard Univ. Press, 1942. I am reading a Japanese translation published by Chuo-Koron Bijutu-Shuppann, 1976) and FENOLLOSA(Yamaguchi : Sanseido, 1982), Louis Agassiz immigrated to the Unites States from Switzerland in 1849. He became famous for his study of fresh water fishes before he came to the U.S. He made much effort to establish a museum of comparative zoology at Harvard. He opposed to the Darwinism. At Harvard he was the teacher of Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925), who visited Japan in 1877 to study sea shells and was invited to the professor of zoology and physiology at Tokyo University just started that year. He discovered kitchen midden for the first time in Japan. He returned to the U.S. temporarily same year to buy books and samples for the university and to look for professors of the university. He met the president of Harvard University (Eliot) and professor of art history (Norton) to hear recommendation, and was introduced to Fenollosa. Persuaded by Morce, Fenollosa went to Japan in 1878. Hideo Nogmi, Yokohama city, Japan