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in Oxford, and that I shall be most happy to 

 receive you and give you a bed in my house 

 if you can come here immediately. I expect 

 M. Arago and Mr. Pentland from Paris to- 

 morrow (Wednesday) afternoon. I shall be 

 most happy to show you our Oxford Museum 

 on Thursday or Friday, and to proceed with 

 you toward Edinburgh. Sir Philip Egerton 

 has a fine collection of fossil fishes near Ches- 

 ter, which you should visit on your road. I 

 have partly engaged myself to be with him on 

 Monday, September 1st, but I think it would 

 be desirable for you to go to him Saturday, 

 that you may have time to take drawings of 

 his fossil fishes. 



I cannot tell certainly what day I shall 

 leave Oxford until I see M. Arago, whom I 

 hope you will meet at my house, on your 

 arrival in Oxford. I shall hope to see you 

 Wednesday evening or Thursday morning. 

 Pray come to my house in Christ Church, with 

 your baggage, the moment you reach Ox- 

 ford. . . . 



Agassiz always looked back with delight on 

 this first visit to Great Britain. It was the 

 beginning of his life -long friendship with 

 Buckland, Sedgwick, Murchison, Lyell, and 



