CHAPTER VII. 



1832-1834: ^T. 25-27. 



Enters upon his Professorship at Neuchatel. First Lecture. 

 Success as a Teacher. Love of Teaching. Influence 

 upon the Scientific Life of Neuchatel. Proposal from 

 University of Heidelberg. Proposal declined. Threat- 

 ened Blindness. Correspondence with Humboldt. Mar- 

 riage. Invitation from Charpentier. Invitation to visit 

 England. Wollaston Prize. First Number of " Poissons 

 Fossiles." Review of the Work. 



THE following autumn Agassiz assumed the 

 duties of his professorship at Neuchatel. His 

 opening lecture " Upon the Relations between 

 the different branches of Natural History and 

 the then prevailing tendencies of all the 

 Sciences " was given on the 12th of Novem- 

 ber, 1832, at the Hotel de Ville. Judged by 

 the impression made upon the listeners as re- 

 corded at the time, this introductory discourse 

 must have been characterized by the same 

 broad spirit of generalization which marked 

 Agassiz' s later teaching. Facts in his hands 

 fell into their orderly relation as parts of a 

 connected whole, and were never presented 



