CHAPTER V. 



1830-1832 : JET. 23-25. 



Year at Home. Leaves Home for Paris. Delays on the 

 Road. Cholera. Arrival in Paris. First Visit to Cu- 

 vier. Cuvier's Kindness. His Death. Poverty in 

 Paris. Home Letters concerning Embarrassments and 

 about his Work. Singular Dream. 



ON the 4th of December, 1830, Agassiz left 

 Munich, in company with Mr. Dinkel, and 

 after a short stay at St. Gallen and Zurich, 

 spent in looking up fossil fishes and making 

 drawings of them, they reached Concise on 

 the 30th of the same month. Anxiously as 

 his return was awaited at home, we have seen 

 that his father was not without apprehension 

 lest the presence of the naturalist, with artist, 

 specimens, and apparatus, should be an incon- 

 venience in the quiet parsonage. But every 

 obstacle yielded to the joy of reunion, and 

 Agassiz was soon established with his " paint- 

 er," his fossils, and all his scientific outfit, 

 under the paternal roof. 



Thus quietly engaged in his ichthyological 

 studies, carrying on his work on the fossil 



