22 LOUIS AGASSIZ, 



The next letter fills in this frame-work. 



TO HIS FATHER. 



Heidelberg, May 24, 1826. 



. . . According to your request, I am going 

 to write you all possible details about my 

 host, the employment of my time, etc., etc. 

 Mr. , my "philister," is a tobacco mer- 

 chant in easy circumstances, having a pretty 

 house in the faubourg of the city. My win- 

 dows overlook the town, and my prospect is 

 bounded by a hill situated to the north of 

 Heidelberg. At the back of the house is a 

 large and fine garden, at the foot of which is 

 a very pretty summer-house. There are also 

 several clumps of trees in the garden, and an 

 aviary filled with native birds. . . . 



Since each day in term time is only the 

 repetition of every other, the account of one 

 will give an idea of all, especially as I fol- 

 low with regularity the plan of study I have 

 formed. Every morning I rise at six o'clock, 

 dress, and breakfast. At seven I go to my 

 lectures, given during the morning in the 

 Museum building, next to which is the ana- 

 tomical laboratory. If, in the interval, I 

 have a free hour, as sometimes happens from 

 ten to eleven, I occupy it in making anatom- 



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