CHAPTER XIV. 



1846-1847: ^t. 39-40. 



Course of Lectures in Boston on Glaciers. — Correspondence 

 with Scientific Friends in Europe. — House in East Boston. 

 — Household and Housekeeping. — Illness. — Letter to 

 ]Slie de Beaumont. — Geology and Glacial Remains. 



The course at the Lowell Institute was im- 

 mediately followed by one upon glaciers, the 

 success of which was guaranteed by private 

 subscription, — an unnecessary security, since 

 the audience, attracted by the novelty and 

 picturesqueness of the subject, as well as by 

 the charm of presentation and fullness of il- 

 lustration, was large and enthusiastic. 



Agassiz was evidently encouraged himself 

 by his success, for toward the close of his 

 Lowell Lectures he writes as follows : — 



TO CHANCELLOR FAVARGEZ. 



Boston, December 31, 1846. 

 . . . Beside my lecture course, now within 

 a few days of its conclusion, and the ever-in- 

 creasing work which grows on my hands in 



