36 LOUIS AGASSIZ. [CHAP. xiv. 



Christinat was not the only inmate of the second 

 "Hotel des Neuchatelois " who left it during 1849 an d 

 1850. First, Pourtales received an appointment in the 

 United States Coast Survey, and became a resident 

 of Washington. Guyot brought over his rather large 

 family, and settled for a time in Cambridge. Les- 

 quereux went West, and made his home at Columbus, 

 Ohio. Charles Girard went to Washington, as an assist- 

 ant of Professor Spencer Baird, at the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution ; and, finally, the librarian, Huber, returned to 

 Switzerland, at the end of 1849. To him is due, in a 

 great measure, the executive part of the " Bibliographia 

 Zoologiae et Geologiae," and to him and Girard together, 

 the rather difficult work of the " Nomenclator " ; and 

 because of his scholarship and linguistic ability, he was 

 sent by Agassiz to Soleure, in 1846, to arrange for the 

 printing of the " Nomenclator." 



At the end of August, 1850, Agassiz's two daughters 

 arrived, in the care of the good cousin, M. Auguste 

 Mayor, who was always ready to help his friends and 

 relatives, and all Louis Agassiz's family was at last 

 gathered under his roof. It was a great achievement, 

 and an immense relief to his mind, after many years 

 of anxiety and suffering, and a new life was now in 

 store for him. 



Once surrounded by his children, Agassiz recollected 

 all his younger days and life in Switzerland ; and Mrs. 

 Agassiz had the happy thought of putting on paper all 

 she heard, in the form of a journal, which she has since 

 used to much advantage in the first half of the first vol- 



