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Value of Agassiz's Publications Agassiz's Family come to his 

 Help - - Great Credit due to Neuchatel and its Inhabitants 

 Agassiz's Last Series of Lectures : " Notice sur la Geographic des 

 Animaux " Intimate Friendship with Jules Pictet de la Rive 

 Agassiz's Last Visit to the Aar Glacier The Meeting of the 

 Helvetic Society of Natural Sciences at Geneva, August, 1845- 

 A Letter to Pictet, with Biographical Remarks Biography of 

 Agassiz by Pictet Agassiz returns all the Specimens borrowed 

 for his Great Pakeontological Works ...... 239 



CHAPTER XI. 

 1846. 



Departure from Neuchatel, March, 1846 Arrival in Paris and 

 Sojourn at the " Hotel du Jardin du Roi " " Nouvelles Etudes 

 sur les Glaciers actuels " The Glacial Theory before the Geo- 

 logical Society of France, at the Meeting of the 6th of April, 1846 

 Agassiz's " Catalogue Raisonne des Echinodermes " His 

 Work in the " Galerie de Zoologie " and among the Private Collec- 

 tions of Brongniart, de France, Deshayes, d'Orbigny, de Verneuil, 

 etc. Desor's Presumption, in putting his Name on the Title 

 Page, without Agassiz's Knowledge Attentions paid to Agassiz 

 by Thiers Indirect Offer of Official Positions at Paris declined 

 Short Visit to England, to meet Charles Lyell On a Cunard 

 Steamship from Liverpool to Boston ...... 258 



CHAPTER XII. 

 1846 



Arrival in America, and Reception by Mr. John A. Lowell Condition 

 of Natural History in the United States His First Visit to New 

 York His Acquaintance with Dr. Samuel Morton, of Philadelphia 

 Collections of Captain W r ilkes made during his Expedition 

 round the World, seen at Washington Science at the Capital 

 of the United States Agassiz's First Series of Lectures before 

 the Lowell Institute at Boston His Success A Course on the 

 Glaciers, in French Frank de Pourtales joins him Charles- 

 ton, South Carolina His Observations on the Negroes His Dis- 



