CHAPTER II. 



1827-1831. 



JOURNEY FROM CARLSRUHE TO MUNICH His EVOLUTION FROM A 

 FRENCH-SWISS TO A GERMAN STUDENT His DUEL AT HEIDELBERG 



UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY MARTIUS'S 

 PROPOSAL TO PUBLISH SPIX'S FISHES FROM BRAZIL PUBLICATION 

 OF His FIRST GREAT WORK ON NATURAL HISTORY DOCTOR OF 

 MEDICINE AND SURGERY BEGINNING OF His RESEARCHES ON THE 

 " POISSONS FOSSILES" His METHOD OF PUBLISHING His WORKS 



His DESIRE TO BE THE FIRST NATURALIST OF His TIME VISIT 

 TO VIENNA RETURN HOME WITH ARTIST DINKEL LIFE AT CON- 

 CISE CHRISTINAT OPPORTUNE HELP FOR A TRIP TO PARIS His 

 JOURNEY "EN ZIG-ZAG" BY WAY OF CARLSRUHE. 



IN the autumn, Braun wrote him about changing 

 their place of study from Heidelberg to Munich. The 

 attraction there was, that according to Dollinger, the 

 instruction in the natural sciences left nothing to be 

 desired. Accordingly, Agassiz left Orbe toward the 

 end of October, 1827, and joined Braun at Carlsruhe, 

 where he was welcomed by the whole family of the 

 postmaster-general of Baden, more especially by Miss 

 Cecilia, who had taken such good care of him when 

 convalescent during the previous journey, and who had 

 already made an excellent portrait of him, in coloured 

 pencil or pastel, during the vacation of 1826. 1 



1 " Portrait of Louis Agassiz at the Age of Nineteen,' 1 as frontispiece of 

 " Louis Agassiz, his Life and Correspondence," by E. C. Agassiz, Vol. I. 



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