232 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



FROM PROFESSOR BUCKLAND TO AGASSIZ. 



OXFORD, December 25, 1833. 



... I should very much like to put into 

 your hands what few materials I possess in the 

 Oxford Museum relating to fossil fishes, and 

 am also desirous that you should see the fos- 

 sil fish in the various provincial museums of 

 England, as well as in London. Sir Philip 

 Egerton has a very large collection of fishes 

 from Engi and Oeningen, which he wishes to 

 place at your disposition. Like myself, he 

 would willingly send you drawings, but draw- 

 ings made without knowledge of the ana- 

 tomical details which you require, cannot well 

 represent what the artist himself does not 

 perceive. I would willingly lend you my spec- 

 imens, if I could secure them against the 

 barbarous hands of the custom-house officials. 

 What I would propose to you as a means of 

 seeing all the collections of England, and 

 gaining at the same time additional subscrip- 

 tions for your work, is, that you should come 

 to England and attend the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science in Sep- 

 tember next. There you will meet all the 

 naturalists of England, and I do not doubt 

 that among them you will find a good many 



