Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

The discovery was announced to the Geological Society of London in successive communications. This was followed by research into the history of the fish found in Lake Neuchâtel. She was a paleontologist who was known around the world for important finds but because of her gender usually omitted from formal recognition for her work.

He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28 1807 – December 14 1873) was a Swiss paleontologist glaciologist geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history.