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Why did Louis Agassiz visit the United States in 1846?
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Louis Agassiz
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Louis Agassiz visited the United States in 1846 for the general purpose of studying the country's natural history and geology. More specifically, he traveled to the U.S. to deliver a course of lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston.1