LOUIS AGASSIZ: 



HIS LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE. 



CHAPTER Xm. 



1846 : .ET. 39. 



Arrival at Boston. — Previous Correspondence with Charles 

 Lyell and Mr. John A. Lowell concerning Lectures at the 

 Lowell Institute. — Relations with Mr. Lowell. — First 

 Course of Lectures. — Character of Audience. — Home 

 Letter giving an Account of his First Journey in the United 

 States. — Impressions of Scientific Men, Scientific Institu- 

 tions and Collections. 



Agassiz arrived in Boston during the first 

 week of October, 1846. He had not come to 

 America without some prospect of employ- 

 ment beside that comprised in his immediate 

 scientific aims. In 1845, when his plans for 

 a journey in the United States began to take 

 definite shape, he had written to ask Lyell 

 whether, notwithstanding his imperfect Eng- 

 lish, he might not have some chance as a 

 public lecturer, hoping to make in that way 

 additional provision for his scientific expenses 



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