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tivity for your knowledge. The fees for lec- 

 tures and literary work might bring you in 

 an additional fifteen hundred gulden yearly. 

 If you accede to this offer send me your inau- 

 gural dissertation, and make me acquainted 

 with your literary work, that I may take the 

 necessary steps with the Curatorio. Consider 

 this proposition as a proof of my high appre- 

 ciation of your literary efforts and of my re- 

 gard for you personally. 



Agassiz's next letter to Humboldt is to con- 

 sult him with respect to the call from Heidel- 

 berg, while it is also full of pleasure at the 

 warm welcome extended to him in Neuchatel. 



AGASSIZ TO HUMBOLDT. 



December, 1832. 



... At last I am in Neuchatel, having, in- 

 deed, begun my lectures some weeks ago. I 

 have been received in a way I could never have 

 anticipated, and which can only be due to 

 your good-will on my behalf and your friendly 

 recommendation. You have my warmest 

 thanks for the trouble you have taken about 

 me, and for your continued sympathy. Let 

 me show you by my work in the years to come, 

 rather than by words, that I am in earnest 



