INDEX, 



first success enjoyed by his family, 

 28 ; vacation spent at Heidelberg, 

 Carlsruhe, and Orbe, 28 ; work at 

 the Munich and Strasbourg Mu- 

 seums, 28 ; not a good business man, 

 29; letter to his father, 30; begins 

 work on his Poissons fossiles, 31 ; 

 goes to Vienna, 31 ; goes to Concise 

 with Dinkel, 32; on the Lake of 

 Neuchatel. 43; the "Little Acad- 

 emy," 33 ; resolves to visit Paris, 

 33 ; generosity of Christinat, 34 ; 

 journey to Paris, collecting material, 

 34; letter to his mother, 35; his 

 manner of interviewing, 35 ; first 

 visit to Paris, 36 ; first meeting with 

 Cuvier, 37 ; object in visiting Paris, 

 39 ; Cuvier's assistance, 39 ; Cuvier's 

 gift of drawings and notes, 39 ; edi- 

 torship of the zoological part of 

 Bulletin des amionces et des nou- 

 velles scientifiques, 40 ; breakfasts 

 with Humboldt, 40; journey to Nor- 

 mandy, 42 ; seashore at Dieppe, 42 ; 

 Cuvier's influence, 43; resolves to 

 leave Paris, 43 ; difficulty of obtain- 

 ing an official position in Paris, 

 46; persuaded by Humboldt to ac- 

 cept professorship at Neuchatel, 47 ; 

 leaves Paris, 47 ; gives up all hope 

 of travel beyond Europe, 48 ; dislike 

 of intrigue, 48 ; professor of natural 

 history at Neuchatel, 50; first es- 

 tablishment at Neuchatel, 50; lect- 

 ures in the City Hall, Neuchatel, 

 51 ; arranged a museum in the Or- 

 phans' Home, Neuchatel, 51 ; inau- 

 gural lecture at Neuchatel, 51 ; 

 founded the Socilte des Sciences 

 Natur elles de Neuchtitel, 52; first 

 contribution to the " Soci6t6 des 

 Sciences Naturclles," 52; tribute to 

 Cuvier, 52 ; lectures on zoology and 

 botany, 53; takes his pupils on ex- 

 cursions, 53; offer of an appoint- 

 ment at Heidelberg, 53 ; consults 

 Humboldt about the call to Heidel- 

 berg, 53; letter to Humboldt, 53; 

 sells his collection to the Museum, 

 Neuchatcl, 55; desire to marry, 55; 

 engagement to Miss Cecile Braun, 



57; marriage, 57; first three years 

 of married life, 58 ; first number of 

 Fossil Fishes, 58 ; memoir read be- 

 fore the Natural History Society 

 of Neuchatel, 59; first visit to Eng- 

 land, 59; work at the rooms of Geo- 

 logical Society, Somerset House, 59 ; 

 lectures on the state of Natural 

 Science in England, 60 ; publications 

 on the echinoderms, 61 ; devoted 

 to his work on Fossil Fishes, 62; 

 method of publication of Fossil 

 Fishes, 63 ; takes his wife to Carls- 

 ruhe, 63; second visit to England, 

 63 ; becomes his own publisher, 64 ; 

 growing expenses, 64; receives one 

 hundred guineas from the British 

 Association lor the Advancement of 

 Science, 64; visit to Dublin, 64; life 

 at Florence Court, 66; his children, 

 66 ; constantly increasing work at 

 Neuchiltel, 67 ; letters to Jules Pictet, 

 67 ; receives the Wollaston medal, 72 ; 

 visits Charpentier at Bex, 83 ; con- 

 verted to the views of Venetz and de 

 Charpentier, 83 ; social life at Bex, 

 84; his power of quick perception, 

 85; the Ice-age; 85; Schimper at 

 Bex, 86; lectures at Neuchiltel on 

 the Ice-age, 87 ; writes his famous 

 Discours d'ouverture, 87 ; kindness 

 to Schimper, 87 ; Discours on the 

 Ice-age, printed in extenso, 89-108 ; 

 astonishment and incredulity of 

 savants after the Discours, 109 ; re- 

 view of the address, no; discus- 

 sions following the address, 112; 

 loss of professorship at Berlin due 

 to his theory on the Ice-age-, 113; 

 action of glaciers on rocks, 113; 

 his reputation at an curly 

 113; evil? of collaboration, 114; 

 death of his father, 115; want of 

 an assistant, 116; as a man.i^cr 

 of men, 116; Nicolet's lithographic 

 establishment at Nemlutrl, 117; 

 translations of Sowerbv's M;/i,-ral 

 CoJichology, 1 17 ; search for a secre- 

 tary, 118 ; engages Desor asM-iT<-tary, 

 119; unbusinesslil. im-ntsin 



money matters, 120; publications, 



