150 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



year 1827, the new University of Munich 

 opened, with Schelling as professor of philos- 

 ophy, Oken, Schubert, and Wagler as pro- 

 fessors of zoology, DoUinger as professor of 

 anatomy and physiology, Martins and Zucca- 

 rini as professors of botany, Fuchs and Kobell 

 as professors of mineralogy, I determined to 

 go there with my two friends and drink new 

 draughts of knowledge. During the years I 

 passed at Munich I devoted myself almost ex- 

 clusively to the different branches of natural 

 science, neglecting more and more my medical 

 studies, because I began to feel an increasing 

 confidence that I could fight my way in the 

 world as a naturalist, and that I was therefore 

 justified in following my strong bent in that 

 direction. My experience in Munich was very 

 varied. With DoUinger I learned to value 

 accuracy of observation. As I was living in 

 his house, he gave me personal instruction in 

 the use of the microscope, and showed me his 

 own methods of embryological investigation. 

 He had already been the teacher of Karl 

 Ernst von Baer ; and though the pupil outran 

 the master, and has become the pride of the 

 scientific world,^it is but just to remember that 

 he owed to him his first initiation into the 

 processes of embryological research. DoUin- 



