164 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



and, to tell the truth, I would gladly go 

 away were I not held fast by the wealth of 

 material of which I can avail myself for in- 

 struction. In the morning I follow the clin- 

 ical courses at the Pitie. ... At ten o'clock, 

 or perhaps at eleven, I breakfast, and then go 

 to the Museum of Natural History, where I 

 stay till dark. Between five and six I dine, 

 and after that turn to such medical studies as 

 do not require daylight. So pass my days, 

 one like another, with great regularity. I 

 have made it a rule not to go out after din- 

 ner, — I should lose too much time. . . . On 

 Saturday only I spend the evening at M. Cu- 

 vier's. . . . 



The homesickness which is easily to be 

 read between the lines of this letter, due, per- 

 haps, to the writer's want of familiarity with 

 society in its conventional aspect, yielded to 

 the influence of an intellectual life, which be- 

 came daily more engrossing. Cuvier's kind 

 reception was but an earnest of the affection- 

 ate interest he seems from the first to have 

 felt in him. After a few days he gave Agas- 

 siz and his artist a corner in one of his own 

 laboratories, and often came to encourage them 

 by a glance at their work as it went on. 



