CHAPTER II. 



1827-1828: ^t. 20-21. 



Arrival in Munich. — Lectures. — Relations with the Pro- 

 fessors. — Schelling, Martins, Oken, DoUinger. — Relations 

 with Fellow-Students. — The Little Academy. — Plans for 

 Traveling.— Advice from his Parents. — Vacation Journey. 

 — Tri-Centeunial Diirer Festival at Nuremberg. 



Agassiz accepted with delight his friend's 

 proposition, and toward the end of October, 

 1827, he and Braun left Carlsruhe together 

 for the University of Munich. His first letter 

 to his brother is given in full, for though it 

 contains crudities at which the writer himself 

 would have smiled in after life, it is interest- 

 ing as showing what was the knowledge pos- 

 sessed in those days by a clever, well-informed 

 student of natural history. 



TO HIS BROTHER AUGUSTE. 



Munich, November 5, 1827. 

 ... At last I am in Munich. I have so 

 much to tell you that I hardly know where to 

 begin. To be sure that I forget nothing, 



