230 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



In October, 1833, Agassiz's marriage to 

 Cecile Braun, the sister of his life-long friend, 

 Alexander Braun, took place. He brought 

 his wife home to a small apartment in Neu- 

 chatel, where they began their housekeeping 

 after the simplest fashion, with such economy 

 as their very limited means enforced. Her 

 rare artistic talent, hitherto devoted to her 

 brother's botanical pursuits, now found a new 

 field. Trained to accuracy in drawing objects 

 of Natural History, she had an artist's eye for 

 form and color. Some of the best drawings 

 in the Fossil Fishes and the Fresh - Water 

 Fishes are from her hand. Throughout the 

 summer, notwithstanding the trouble in his 

 eyes, Agassiz had been still pressing on these 

 works. His two artists, Mr. Dinkel and Mr. 

 Weber, the former in Paris, the latter in Neu- 

 chatel, were constantly busy on his plates. 



Although Agassiz was at this time only 

 twenty-six years of age, his correspondence 

 already shows that the interest of scientific 

 men, all over Europe, was attracted to him 

 and to his work. From investigators of note 

 in his own country, from those of France, 

 Italy, and Germany, from England, and even 

 from America, the distant El Dorado of natu- 

 ralists in those days, came offers of coopera- 



