152 LIFE OF BENJAMIN SILLIMAN. 



I hope the reunion at Dublin may draw you, too, there. 

 How delightful it would be to me to make your personal 

 acquaintance there. If you had by that time made a collec- 

 ion of fossil fishes, I am convinced that it would greatly 

 interest English naturalists, and in bringing such an one 

 with you, you would not only oblige him who has the honor 

 to write you, but also the whole geological section. I should 

 not have taken the liberty to make this proposition to you, 

 if Dr. Mantell had not promised to write to you on the same 

 subject, and he did not doubt for an instant that your coun 

 trymen would emulate one another in favoring my research 

 es, as the English geologists have done. If you would like 

 the Swiss fossils, especially of Jura, and do not fear the cost 

 of transportation, ask them from me without hesitation. 



Receive, sir, the assurance of my high consideration, and 

 believe me, your devoted servant, 



L. AGASSIZ. 



NEUFCH^TEL IN SWITZERLAND, 

 January 6, 1835. 



My third volume forms a parcel which will reach you, I 

 hope, soon after my letter. 



FROM PROFESSOR AGASSIZ. 



YOUR pleasant letter was forwarded to me from Paris, 

 during the month of May, by Mr. St. John, announcing 

 that I should have the pleasure of seeing him at my home 

 in the course of the summer. Mr. St. John did indeed 

 come to Neufchatel, but unfortunately during the few weeks 

 when I was absent, so that I did not have the pleasure of 

 showing him how pleasant it would be to me to receive any 

 one introduced by you. I hope to be more fortunate in the 

 future 



I have seen with pleasure that your countrymen manifest 

 such zeal for geology. So diligent an attendance on the 

 part of an audience so numerous as yours does them credit, 

 while it is at the same time the highest compliment to the 



