234 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



AGASSIZ TO PROFESSOR BUCKLAND. 



... I thank you most warmly for the very 

 important information you have so kindly 

 given me respecting the rich collections of 

 England; I will, if possible, make arrange- 

 ments to visit them this year, and in that case 

 I will beg you to let me have a few letters of 

 recommendation to facilitate my examination 

 of them in detail. Not that I question for a 

 moment the liberality of the English natural- 

 ists. All the continental savants who have vis- 

 ited your museums have praised the kindness 

 shown in intrusting to them the rarest objects, 

 and I well know that the English rival other 

 nations in this respect, and even leave them far 

 behind. But one must have merited such 

 favors by scientific labors ; to a beginner they 

 are always a free gift, wholly undeserved. . . . 



A few months later Agassiz received a very 

 gratifying and substantial mark of the inter- 

 est felt by English naturalists in his work. 



CHARLES LYELL TO LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



Somerset House, London, February 4, 1834. 

 ... It is with the greatest pleasure that 

 I announce to you good news. The Geolog- 



