44 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



I invite you to be my traveling companion. 

 Judging by a circumstantial letter from Bol- 

 linger, the instruction in the natural sciences 

 leaves nothing to be desired there. Add to 

 this that the lectures are free, and the theatre 

 open to students at twenty-four kreutzers. No 

 lack of advantages and attractions, lodgings 

 hardly more expensive than at Heidelberg, 

 board equally cheap, beer plenty and good. 

 Let all this persuade you. We shall hear 

 Gruithuisen in popular astronomy, Schubert 

 in general natural history, Martins in botany, 

 Fuchs in mineralogy, Seiber in mathematics, 

 Starke in physics, Oken in everything (he 

 lectures in winter on the philosophy of nature, 

 natural history, and physiology). The clinical 

 instruction will be good. We shall soon be 

 friends with all the professors. The library 

 contains whatever is best in botany and zool- 

 ogy, and the collections open to the public 

 are very rich. It is not known whether Schel- 

 ling will lecture, but at all events certain of 

 the courses will be of great advantage. Then 

 little vacation trips to the Salzburg and Carin- 

 thian Alps are easily made from there ! Write 

 soon whether you will go and drink Bavarian 

 beer and Schnapski with me, and write also 

 when we are to see you in Heidelberg and 



