300 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



Desor, Charles Vogt, Frangois de Pourtal&s, 

 Celestin Nicolet, and Henri Coulon. It af- 

 forded, perhaps, as good a shelter as they 

 could have found in the old cabin of Hugi, 

 where they had hoped to make their tempo- 

 rary home. In this they were disappointed, 

 for the cabin had crumbled on its last glacial 

 journey. The wreck was lying two hundred 

 feet below the spot where they had seen the 

 walls still standing the year before. 



The work was at once distributed among 

 the different members of the party, Agas- 

 siz himself, assisted by his young friend and 

 favorite pupil, Frangois de Pourtales, retain- 

 ing for his own share the meteorological ob- 

 servations, and especially those upon the inter- 

 nal temperature of the glaciers. 1 To M. Vogt 

 fell the microscopic study of the red snow 

 and the organic life contained in it ; to M. 

 Nicolet, the flora of the glaciers and the sur- 

 rounding rocks ; to M. Desor, the glacial phe- 

 nomena proper, including those of the mo- 

 raines. He had the companionship and assist- 



1 See "Tables of Temperature, Measurements," etc., in 

 Agassiz's Systeme Glaciaire. These results are also recorded 

 in a volume entitled Sejours dans les Glaciers, by Edouard 

 Desor, a collection of very bright and entertaining articles 

 upon the excursions and sojourns made in the Alps, during 

 successive summers, by Agassiz and his scientific staff. 



