LIFE AT MUNICH. 89 



The letter concludes in haste for the mail, 

 and if the story of the journey was finished 

 the final chapter has not been preserved. 

 Some extracts from the home letters of Agas- 

 siz's friend Braun, which are in place here, 

 throw light on their university life for the 

 coming year. 1 



ALEXANDER BRAUN TO HIS FATHER. 



MUNICH, November 18, 1828. 



... I will tell you how we have laid out 

 our time for this term. Our human conscious- 

 ness may be said to begin at half-past five 

 o'clock in the morning. The hour from six 

 to seven is appointed for mathematics, name- 

 ly, geometry and trigonometry. To this ap- 

 pointment we are faithful, unless the professor 

 oversleeps himself, or Agassiz happens to have 

 grown to his bed, an event which sometimes 

 occurs at the opening of the term. From 

 seven to eight we do as we like, including 

 breakfast. Under Agassiz's new style of house- 

 keeping the coffee is made in a machine 

 which is devoted during the day to the soak- 

 ing of all sorts of creatures for skeletons, and 

 in the evening again to the brewing of our 



1 See Life of Alexander Braun, by his daughter, Madame 

 Cecile Mettenius. 



