216 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



least, though perhaps not yet ripened into 

 seed. . . . 



M. Coulon told me the day before yester- 

 day that he had spoken with M. de Montmol- 

 lin, the Treasurer, who would write to M. An- 

 cillon concerning the purchase of my collec- 

 tion. . . . Will you have the kindness, when 

 occasion offers, to say a word to M. Ancillon 

 about it ? . . . Not only would this collection 

 be of the greatest value to the museum here, 

 but its sale would also advance my farther 

 investigations. With the sum of eighty louis, 

 which is all that is subscribed for my profes- 

 sorship, I cannot continue them on any large 

 scale. 



I await now with anxiety Cotta's answer 

 to my last proposition ; but whatever it be, 

 I shall begin the lithographing of the plates 

 immediately after the New Year, as they must 

 be carried on under my own eye and direction. 

 This I can well do since my uncle, Dr. Mayor 

 in Lausanne, gives me fifty louis toward it, 

 the amount of one year's pay to Weber, my 

 former lithographer in Munich. I have there- 

 fore written him to come, and expect him 

 after New Year. With my salary I can also 

 henceforth keep Dinkel, who is now in Paris, 

 drawing the last fossils which I described. . . . 



