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Tyndall was among the most enthusiastic, and it was 

 a rare sight to see such savants as Jules Pictet de la 

 Rive, Auguste de la Rive, Plantamour, A. de Can- 

 dolle, A. Favre, Escher, Studer, Merian, Heer, Mous- 

 son, Dufour, Vouga, crowding round and complimenting 

 Agassiz. 



Pictet, with his usual desire to conciliate, and with 

 the best intention, arranged, at a great party he gave 

 Agassiz at his country seat at Genthod, a sort of acci- 

 dental meeting between him and Desor ; and in order 

 to succeed in the conciliatory role he had undertaken, 

 without the approbation or even knowledge of Agassiz, 

 he tried to bring Karl Vogt to Genthod. But Vogt, 

 who was always honest in his dealing with others, if 

 rough and sometimes in the wrong, and who was 

 adverse to scenes, declined to be one of the party. 

 Agassiz was somewhat painfully impressed by the 

 meeting, tears were shed, but, as Vogt says in his 

 biography of Desor, no change of any sort was effected, 

 and things remained as they were after the separation 

 at East Boston in the spring of 1848. 



Agassiz also paid a short visit to the home of his 

 cousin, Auguste Mayor, in Neuchatel. Although al- 

 most all the Neuchatel families were at their summer 

 places, they came to meet him, and he had an oppor- 

 tunity to see the strong feeling of friendship and 

 admiration which all the inhabitants felt toward him. 

 From Neuchatel he went to Germany to visit the Braun 

 family. His brother-in-law, Alexander Braun, had 

 removed from Freiburg-im-Breisgau to Berlin, in 1851, 

 and as Agassiz had not time enough at his disposal 



