56 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



may know where I am and what I am do- 

 ing. In the morning from seven to nine I 

 am at the Hospital. From nine to eleven I 

 go to the Library, where I usually work at 

 that time instead of going home. From 

 eleven till one o'clock I have lectures, after 

 which I dine, sometimes at one place, some- 

 times at another, for here every one, that is, 

 every foreigner, takes his meals in the caf^s, 

 paying for the dinner on the spot, so that he 

 is not obliged to go always to the same place. 

 In the afternoon I have other lectures on 

 various subjects, according to the days, from 

 two or three till five o'clock. These ended, 

 I take a walk although it is then dark. The 

 environs of Munich are covered with snow, 

 and the people have been going about in 

 sleighs these three weeks. When I am frozen 

 through I come home, and set to work to re- 

 view my lectures of the day, or I write and 

 read till eight or nine o'clock. Then I go 

 to my cafe for supper. After supper I am 

 glad to return to the house and go to bed. 



This is the course of my daily life, with 

 the single exception that sometimes Braun 

 and I pass an evening with some professor, 

 discussing with all our might and main sub- 

 jects of which we often know nothing ; this 



