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fin, and spending very happy days with my 

 grandfather. But he is now very ill, and even 

 should we have better news of him to-day, the 

 thought weighs heavily on my heart, that I 

 must take leave of him when he is perhaps on 

 his death-bed. ... I have just tied up my 

 last package of plants, and there lies my whole 

 herbarium in order, thirty packages in all. 

 For this I have to thank you, dear Alex., and 

 it gives me pleasure to tell you so and to be 

 reminded of it. What a succession of glori- 

 ous memories came up to me as I turned them 

 over. Free from all disturbing incidents, I 

 enjoyed anew our life together, and even 

 more, if possible, than in actual experience. 

 Every talk, every walk, was present to me 

 again, and in reviewing it all I saw how our 

 minds had been drawn to each other in an 

 ever-strengthening union. In you I see my 

 own intellectual development reflected as in a 

 mirror, for to you, and to my intercourse with 

 you, I owe my entrance upon this path of the 

 noblest and most lasting enjoyment. It is 

 delightful to look back on such a past with 

 the future so bright before us. ... 



Agassiz now returned to Munich to add the 

 title of Doctor of Medicine to that of Doctor 



