[NATURAL HISTORY]. CROSSMAN, Charles. Chart (25 x 37 inches) showing graphically the fluctuations of the water surface and the rainfall from 1859 to 1888 : line of deepest water, greatest depth, areas of water surfaces and basins, discharge and tides, of the Great Lakes. Compiled from Official Data Obtained from the U. S. Lake Survey. Milwaukee: Privately Printed by the author, 1888.

Folio. Large folding chart. Modern quarter cloth, contemporary marbled boards; original printed wrappers bound in. Provenance: Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910), scientist and engineer (ownership inscription on front wrapper); Calumet & Hecla Mining Company (inscription on front wrapper dated 3 December 1888); deposited by Agassiz to the Library of the Musuem of Comparative Zoology (bookplate and stamp on front wrapper).

FIRST EDITION. In 1867, Aggasiz became superintendent of the struggling Calumet copper mine in Michigan, later merging it with the adjacent Hecla mine to form the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Under Agassiz's leadership, this company became the largest copper producer in the United States, at times responsible for nearly half of the country's total copper production. Concurrently with his mining success, Agassiz pursued his passion for marine biology and oceanography. He assisted Charles Wyville Thomson in examining and classifying the collections of the 1872 Challenger Expedition, which laid the foundation for modern oceanography by circumnavigating the globe, collecting vast amounts of data, and cataloging over 4,000 previously unknown species.