CHAPTER XIII. 

 1847 (continued") 1849- 



AGASSIZ'S VISITS TO THE MARKETS His FIRST Two STORAGE PLACES, 

 OR MUSEUMS, IN AMERICA LECTURES BEFORE THE FACULTY OF THE 

 COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS OF NEW YORK A CALL 

 FROM HIS OLD ARTIST, JACQUES BURKHARDT SECOND COURSE OF 

 LECTURES AT THE LOWELL INSTITUTE OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE 

 OF A PROFESSORSHIP AT HARVARD COLLEGE His REMOVAL FROM 

 EAST BOSTON TO OXFORD STREET, IN CAMBRIDGE DISMISSAL OF 

 HIS SECRETARY, E. DESOR TRIAL BEFORE THE CIRCUIT COURT OF 

 MASSACHUSETTS OF THE CASE OF E. DESOR VERSUS ADMIRAL CHARLES 

 H. DAVIS AGASSIZ'S JOURNEY TO LAKE SUPERIOR, AND HIS VOLUME, 

 "LAKE SUPERIOR" DEATH OF HIS FIRST WIFE THE SECOND 

 "HOTEL DES NEUCHATELOIS," AT CAMBRIDGE AMERICAN ASSOCIA- 

 TION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCES. 



AGASSIZ was a constant visitor to the great markets 

 at Boston, purchasing all the fishes, Crustacea, or wild 

 game he could find ; and he was soon a great favourite 

 with all the market-men. What astonished them most 

 was his never satisfied desire for more specimens. He 

 would collect ten, twenty, and fifty specimens of the 

 same species of fishes, and turtles by the hundreds. 



At each city where he stopped he never failed to 

 go to the market and carefully examine the stands of 

 fishermen and poulterers. At New York, with the 

 help of his cousin, M. Auguste Mayor, in a few days, 



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