CHAPTER XVII. 



185^-1864. 



VISIT TO EUROPE REUNION OF Swiss NATURALISTS AT PICTET'S COUN- 

 TRY HOUSE TO MEET HIM AGASSIZ MUSEUM INAUGURATION OF 



PART OF THE NORTH WING OF THE BUILDING NEW SERIES OF 

 PUPILS MONEY DIFFICULTIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE MUSEUM 

 - LECTURES AND LESSONS AT THE MUSEUM SECESSION OF SEV- 

 ERAL OF HIS PUPILS. 



IN June, 1859, Agassiz, in company with his wife 

 and youngest daughter, left for Europe. He wished 

 to see his old mother, and to present his American 

 wife to her and to all the members of his Swiss and 

 German families. On his way to Switzerland, he lin- 

 gered a few days in the British Isles to see his old 

 friends, the Earl of Enniskillen and Sir Philip Eger- 

 ton, the two most distinguished palreoichthyologists of 

 Great Britain and Ireland ; Richard Owen, at Rich- 

 mond Park, near London ; and Roderick Murchison, 

 who invited all the naturalists then in London to meet 

 him at his fine house in the fashionable and aristocratic 

 West End. 



At Paris a week quickly passed among Agassiz's old 

 friends, the French savants ; and he had long conver- 

 sations with the Secretary of Public Instruction, M. 

 Rouland, on all sorts of questions relating to natural 



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