LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



PART I. IN EUROPE. 



CHAPTER I. 



1807-1827: TO ^ET. 20. 



Birthplace. Influence of his Mother. Early Love of Nat- 

 ural History. Boyish Occupations. Domestic Educa- 

 tion. First School. Vacations. Commercial Life re- 

 nounced. College of Lausanne. Choice of Profession. 



Medical School of Zurich. Life and Studies there. 

 University of Heidelberg. Studies interrupted by Illness. 



Return to Switzerland. Occupations during Convales- 

 cence. 



JEAN Louis RODOLPHE AGASSIZ was born 

 May 28, 1807, at the village of Motier, on the 

 Lake of Morat. His father, Louis Rodolphe 

 Agassiz, was a clergyman ; his mother, Rose 

 Mayor, was the daughter of a physician whose 

 home was at Cudrefin, on the shore of the 

 Lake of Neuchatel. 



The parsonages in Switzerland are fre- 

 quently pretty and picturesque. That of Mo- 

 tier, looking upon the lake and sheltered by 

 a hill which commands a view over the whole 

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