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age of Orbe, and at Cudrefin, near his good grandfather, 

 Dr. Mayor, who died during Louis's visit. As soon as 

 he returned to Munich in December, 1829, he began his 

 great work on the " Poissons fossiles," pursuing at the 

 same time his medical studies, and, as we have seen, 

 successfully passing his examinations, the subjects being 

 anatomical, pathological, surgical, obstetrical, with in- 

 quiries into "materia medica," " medica forensis," and 

 the relation of botany to these topics, as it is printed in 

 his " Einladung." 



As soon as his examination and the ceremony of re- 

 ceiving the degree from the rector of the University were 

 over, he started for Vienna, where he passed almost 

 two months. It was a great gratification to him to find 

 that his reputation had reached Vienna, for he was 

 received there, by professors and curators of museums, 

 as "an associate already known." He looked specially 

 at fossil fishes, and made memoranda of all the speci- 

 mens, to be used afterward in his great work. His 

 memory was so good, his eye so accurate, that many 

 years afterward, when looking at fossil fishes at Neu- 

 chatel, he one day said : " I have seen before another 

 specimen of this same species in the museum at 

 Vienna" ; even going so far as to indicate the drawer 

 in which it was stored. The director at Vienna, on 

 being written in regard to it, answered that he had 

 found the fossil fish where Agassiz had indicated that 

 it was, and sent it at once. It was, as Agassiz said, of 

 the same species. 



Agassiz's last letter from Munich to his parents is 

 dated Nov. 26, 1830. He left Munich the 4th of De- 



