104 ALEXANDER AGASSIZ 



things are going to the dogs. I did not see either 

 Beyrich, Virchow, Duprey, or Reymond ; they are all 

 absent, it being holidays for the first week in June. The 

 Palseontologfical collection is all in drawers and I had 

 no time to examine it more carefully. Midler's type of 

 Starfishes I would have examined, but it would have 

 taken too long to do anything of use for the fifth Vol- 

 ume, and it will be much simpler to send them over and 

 have them compared than to spend the time now. Dr. 

 Hagen was daily expected but we left before he arrived. 



(I saw his friend in charge of the Entomological 



collection, who struck me exceedingly unpleasantly and 

 looks just as he writes his yearly reports, as if he had a 

 special grudge against everybody who did not agree with 

 him.) I saw also by chance at Peters's, the writer of 

 Decken's "Journey in Africa," who abused the Museum 

 for not sending him all our collections from Zanzibar ; 

 I was quite amused at the awkwardness he felt while I 

 was round. 



I don't remember if I wrote you that I had succeeded 

 at Munich in getting something you wish ; we can get 

 photographs printed like lithographs, so that when I 

 return I shall make out the Plates for the " Revision of 

 the Echini " from the photographs Sonrel is now mak- 

 ing for me, and I think the whole can be done at very 

 little above the price of printing with us. I am gather- 

 ing material for this everywhere, and at Vienna, Breslau 

 and Berlin have got quite considerable accessions to our 

 stock of original specimens. When I have seen Copen- 

 hagen and Stockholm and London again I shall have 

 seen almost every original specimen described in Europe 

 and America, and ought to be able to do something 

 good, not from books but from the things themselves. 



