LETTER FROM PROFESSOR SEDGWICK. 383 



The following correspondence with Profes- 

 sor Adam Sedgwick is of interest, as showing 

 his attitude and that of Agassiz toward ques- 

 tions which have since acquired a still greater 

 scientific importance. 



PROFESSOR ADAM SEDGWICK TO LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



TRINITY COLL., CAMBRIDGE, ) 

 April 10, 1845. > 



MY DEAR PROFESSOR, The British Asso- 

 ciation is to meet here about the middle of 

 June, and I trust that the occasion will again 

 bring you to England and give me the great 

 happiness of entertaining you in Trinity Col- 

 lege. Indeed, I wish very much to see you ; 

 for many years have now elapsed since I last 

 had that pleasure. May God long preserve 

 your life, which has been spent in promoting 

 the great ends of truth and knowledge ! Your 

 great work on fossil fishes is now before me, 

 and I also possess the first number of your 

 monograph upon the fishes of the Old Red 

 Sandstone. I trust the new numbers will fol- 

 low the first in rapid succession. I love now 

 and then to find a resting - place ; and your 

 works always give me one. The opinions of 

 Geoffrey St. Hilaire and his dark school seem 

 to be gaining some ground in England. I 



