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over the glacier to reach his " Hotel des Neuchatelois," 

 his wife, her sister, Fraulein Emmy Braun, and his son 

 Alex., the latter borne on the shoulders of the guide 

 Jacob. That day the dinner on the glacier was par- 

 ticularly luxurious, fresh provisions having come with 

 the visitors, and the pleasure of the unexpected meet- 

 ing enlivened the otherwise rather rough establishment, 

 with its numerous discomforts. 



Af-ter a visit to the top of the Strahleck, the party 

 left the " Hotel des Neuchatelois," after a stay of only 

 six days, from the loth to the i6th of August, 1840. 

 Before returning to Neuchatel, Agassiz traversed the 

 Scheideck, and made observations on the glaciers of 

 Grindelwald, of Schwartzwald, and of Rosenlaui ; he 

 visited also the upper part of the glacier of the Aar, 

 and passed a night on the Siedelhorn. 



Directly after returning to Neuchatel, Agassiz left 

 for England. During the meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, in September, 

 at Glasgow, he had an opportunity to see how little 

 progress the glacial question had made among English 

 naturalists : it was almost unknown. Buckland alone, 

 during a protracted visit to Switzerland in 1838, and 

 after resisting as long as he could all the facts concern- 

 ing glacial action, was at last converted by Agassiz to 

 the new theory. But his conversion had no other effect 

 on English geologists than to bring forward a semi- 

 caricature drawn by Thomas Sopwith, which was largely 

 circulated as a portrait of Buckland dressed in " cos- 

 tume of the glaciers," and which has been reproduced 

 since in " Memoir of Sir Roderick Murchison," by A. 



