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sessed. " It is absolutely impossible/' he says, 

 " for me to issue even another number until 

 this sale is effected. ... I shall consider my- 

 self more than repaid if I receive, in exchange 

 for the whole collection of drawings, simply 

 what I have expended upon them, provided 

 I may keep those which have yet to be litho- 

 graphed until that be done." 



Sir Philip made every effort to effect a sale 

 to the British Museum. He failed at the 

 moment, but the collection was finally pur- 

 chased and presented to the British Museum 

 by a generous relative of his own, Lord Fran- 

 cis Egerton. In the mean time, Sir Philip and 

 Lord Cole, in order to make it possible for 

 Agassiz to retain the services of Mr. Dinkel, 

 proposed to pay his expenses while he was 

 drawing such specimens from their own collec- 

 tions as were needed for the work. These 

 drawings were, of course, finally to remain 

 their own property. 



During his sojourn at Bex, Agassiz's intel- 

 lect and imagination had been deeply stirred 

 by the glacial phenomena. In the winter of 

 1837, on his return to Neuchatel, he investi- 

 gated anew the slopes of the Jura, and found 

 that the facts there told the same story. Al- 

 though he resumed with unabated ardor his 



