398 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



that his return could hardly be counted upon. 

 The young people, the students, regretted 

 their beloved professor not only for his scien- 

 tific attainments, but for his kindly disposi- 

 tion, the charm of his eloquence, the inspira- 

 tion of his teaching ; they regretted also the 

 gay, animated, untiring companion of their 

 excursions, who made them acquainted with 

 nature, and knew so well how to encourage 

 and interest them in their studies." 



Pausing at Carlsruhe on his journey, he 

 proceeded thence to Paris, where he was wel- 

 comed with the greatest cordiality by scien- 

 tific men. In recognition of his work on the 

 " Fossil Fishes " the Monthyon Prize of Phys- 

 iology was awarded him by the Academy. 

 He felt this distinction the more because the 

 bearing of such investigations upon experi- 

 mental physiology had never before been 

 pointed out, and it showed that he had suc- 

 ceeded in giving a new direction and a more 

 comprehensive character to paleontological 

 research. He passed some months in Paris, 

 busily occupied with the publication of the 

 " Systeme Glaciaire," his second work on the 

 glacial phenomena. The "Etudes sur les 

 Glaciers" had simply contained a resum^ of 

 all the researches undertaken upon the Al- 



