118 LOUIS AG A SSI Z. 



I have been received, etc. These are matters 

 better told than written. ... I intend to leave 

 here to-morrow or the day after, according 

 to circumstances. I shall stay some days at 

 Carlsruhe to put my affairs in order, and from 

 there make the journey home as quickly as 

 possible. . . . 



The following month we find him once more 

 at home in the parsonage of Orbe. After the 

 first pleasure and excitement of return, his 

 time was chiefly spent in arranging his col- 

 lections at Cudrefin, where his grandfather 

 had given him house-room for them. In this 

 work he had the help of the family in gen- 

 eral, who made a sort of scientific fete of the 

 occasion. But it ended sadly with the illness 

 and death of the kind old grandfather, under 

 whose roof children and grandchildren had 

 been wont to assemble. 



AGASSIZ TO BRAUN. 



Orbe, December 3, 1829. 

 ... I will devote an hour of this last even- 

 ing I am to pass in Orbe, to talking with you. 

 You will wonder that I am still here, and that 

 I have not written. You already know that I 

 have been arranging my collections at Cudre- 



