CHAPTER XII. 



1 846 (continued) - 1 847 . 



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 WILKES 

 MADE DURING HIS EXPEDITION ROUND THE WORLD, SEEN AT WASH- 

 INGTON 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 CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA 



His OBSERVATIONS ON THE NEGROES His DISAPPROVAL OF SLA- 

 VERY ARRIVAL AT NEW YORK OF HIS TWO ASSISTANTS, DESOR AND 

 GIRARD. ESTABLISHMENT AT EAST BOSTON SICKNESS OF AGASSIZ 



His HOSPITALITY A VISIT TO NIAGARA FALLS ON BOARD THE 

 UNITED STATES COAST SURVEY STEAMER, THE "BIBB" ARRIVAL 

 OF MINISTER CHARLES Louis PHILIPPE CHRISTINAT - - FIRST DIF- 

 FICULTIES WITH HIS SECRETARY - - Two LETTERS TO J. MARCOU, 



EXTENDING AN INVITATION TO JOIN HIM. 



ONE fine morning in the first week of October, 1846, 

 a stranger recently disembarked was seen in the streets 

 of Boston, looking to the right and left, in some aston- 

 ishment, but steadily making his way to Pemberton 

 Square, a rectangle with a garden in the centre, and 

 surrounded by fine three-storied brick houses, at that 

 time a very aristocratic part of the city, recalling many 

 squares and circles of the London West End. After 

 looking at the numbers of several houses, the foreigner 



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