574 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



In a paper just read to the Geological So- 

 ciety Professor Ramsay has made a stronger 

 demand on the powers of ice than you ever 

 did. He imagines that every Swiss lake 

 north and south (Geneva, Neuchatel, Como, 

 etc.) has been scooped out, and the depres- 

 sions excavated by the abrading action of the 

 glaciers. . . . 



FROM SIR PHILIP DE GREY EGERTON. 



ALBEMARLE ST., LONDON, March 11, 1862. 



MON CHER AGASS., As I am now settled 

 in London for some months, I take the first 

 opportunity of writing to congratulate you on 

 the distinction which has been conferred upon 

 you by the Royal Society, and I will say that 

 you have most fully earned it. I rejoice ex- 

 ceedingly in the decision the Council have 

 arrived at. I only regret I was not on the 

 Council myself to have advocated your high 

 claims and taken a share in promoting your 

 success. It is now long since I have heard 

 from you, but this terrible disruption between 

 the North and South has, I suppose, rendered 

 the pursuit of science rather difficult, and the 

 necessary funds also difficult of attainment. 

 I should like very much to hear how you 

 are getting on, and whether there is any like- 



