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Which Brazilian fish collection did Louis Agassiz study early in his career?
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Louis Agassiz
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Early in his career, Louis Agassiz studied an extensive collection of Brazilian fishes, primarily from the Amazon River, which had been gathered in 1819 and 1820 by two naturalists at Munich. After one of the original collectors died in 1826, the collection was turned over to Agassiz, who completed the classification and published the findings in 1829 as Selecta Genera et Species Piscium.1