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Carolina, delivering there another course of lectures 

 and continuing to collect specimens and make observa- 

 tions on the fauna. 



The ease with which money could be made by public 

 lectures rapidly turned the heads of Agassiz and all his 

 household. His secretary Desor sent money to a Ger- 

 man cousin, a gardener, asking him to come over at 

 once, which he accordingly did. Then Desor arranged 

 to have a regular emigration of assistants and attendants 

 of all sorts from Neuchatel to Cambridge, in order to 

 make a permanent and large establishment. In this 

 way an excellent lithographer, A. Sonrel, with the com- 

 plete equipment of a designer and a printer, was secured. 

 It was also decided to remove Agassiz's great library, 

 and an order to pack up and to accompany it to America 

 was sent to the librarian in charge, Henri Hiiber; and 

 finally two Swiss servants were also sent for. 



During the absence of Agassiz in South Carolina, 

 Desor, with the help of Dr. A. A. Gould, the learned 

 conchologist of Boston, worked at a text-book of zoology, 

 and as the book was to be printed in English, and as 

 soon as possible, Desor lost no time in increasing his. 

 incomplete knowledge of English. 



Before leaving for Charleston, Agassiz had rented a 

 wooden house just built at Cambridge, the third house 

 on the right side of Oxford Street, near the university ; 

 a much smaller house than the one at East Boston, and 

 cheaper, costing only four hundred dollars a year ; while 

 the university had also secured for Agassiz's laboratory 

 a small old bath-house close by Charles River, for the 



