576 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



I shall avail myself of opportunities for 

 bringing myself to your recollection by such 

 brochures as I have time for. One of them 

 will open to your view something of the na- 

 ture of the contest here waging to obtain for 

 England a suitable Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, equivalent to her wealth and colonies 

 and maritime business. In this I find you a 

 valuable ally, and have cited from the Reports 

 of your Museum of Comparative Zoology in 

 support of my own claims for space. 



I was glad to hear from Mr. Bates that the 

 Megatheriimi had not gone to the bottom, 

 but had been rescued, and that it was proba- 

 bly ere this in your Museum at Cambridge. 

 I trust it may be so. 



A hne from you or the sight of any friend 

 of yours is always cheering to me. Our 

 friends Enniskillen and Egerton are both 

 well. . . . 



I remain ever truly yours, 



Richard Owen. 



As has been seen by a previous letter from 

 Sir Roderick Murchison, Agassiz tried from 

 time to time to give his English friends more 

 just views of our national struggle. The let- 

 ter to which the following is an answer is 



