114 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



TO HIS FATHER. 



August, 1829. 

 ... I hope by this time you have my book. 

 I can the less explain the delay since M. Cu- 

 vier, to whom I sent it in the same way, has 

 acknowledged its arrival. I inclose his let- 

 ter, hoping it will give you pleasure to read 

 what one of the greatest naturalists of the age 

 writes me about it. 



CUVrER TO LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



Paris, au Jardin du Roi, August 3, 1829. 



. . . You and M. de Martins have done me 

 honor in placing my name at the head of a 

 work so admirable as the one you have just 

 published. The importance and the rarity of 

 the species therein described, as well as the 

 beauty of the figures, will make the work an 

 important one in ichthyology, and nothing 

 could heighten its value more than the accu- 

 racy of your descriptions. It will be of the 

 greatest use to me in my History of Fishes. 

 I had already referred to the plates in the 

 second edition of my " R^gne Animal." I 

 shall do all in my power to accelerate the sale 

 among amateurs, either by showing it to such 

 as meet at my house or by calling attention 

 to it in scientific journals. 



