CHAPTER XIV. 



1846-1847: JCT. 39-40. 



Course of Lectures in Boston on Glaciers. Correspondence 

 with Scientific Friends in Europe. House in East Boston. 

 Household and Housekeeping. Illness. Letter to 

 Elie de Beaumont. Letter to James D. Dana. 



THE course at the Lowell Institute was im- 

 mediately followed by one upon glaciers, the 

 success of which was guaranteed by private 

 subscription, an unnecessary security, since 

 the audience, attracted by the novelty and 

 picturesqueness of the subject, as well as by 

 the charm of presentation and fullness of il- 

 lustration, was large and enthusiastic. 



Agassiz was evidently encouraged himself 

 by his success, for toward the close of his 

 Lowell Lectures he writes as follows : 



TO CHANCELLOR FAVARGEZ. 



BOSTON, December 31, 1846. 



. . . Beside my lecture course, now within 

 a few days of its conclusion, and the ever-in- 

 creasing work which grows on my hands in 



