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cation, based upon information obtained from Switzerland : 

 " Previous to the year 1818, and for a while after, Guyot was 

 at school at La Chaux-de-Fonds, a noted village ' at the foot 

 of a narrow and savage gorge of the Jura,' three thousand and 

 seventy feet above the sea. In 1821, being then fourteen 

 years of age, he entered the College of Neuchatel, where he 

 was a classmate of Leo Lesquereux, the botanist: * Guyot and 

 I,' says Lesquereux, ' were for some years brothers in study, 

 working in common and often spending our vacations to- 

 gether, either at Guyot's home at Hauterive, or with my par- 

 ents at Fleurier; and I owe much in life to the good influ- 

 ences of this friendship.' His studies were classical Latin, 

 Greek, and philosophy arranged for preparing a boy for the 

 profession of the law, medicine, or theology, with almost noth- 

 ing to foster his love of Nature." It is interesting to note that 

 during his school life he was president of the gymnastic club, 

 and one of the best of the school athletes. His slight, wiry 

 frame thus received a training in strength and endurance 

 which afterward stood him in good stead when he undertook 

 the immense labours of glacier study in Switzerland and of 

 mountain surveying in America. 



In 1825 he went to complete his studies in Germany, 

 attending successively the gymnasia of Carlsruhe and Stutt- 

 gart. At Carlsruhe he resided with a family named Braun, 

 with which several of his relatives had long been intimate. 

 There he met his countryman Agassiz, who, with Imhoff and 

 Carl Schimper, was making a vacation visit to his friend, young 

 Alexander Braun, the discoverer of phyllotaxy. This period 

 was one of the critical points in Guyot's career. There was 

 formed that close and tender friendship with Agassiz which 

 lasted until the latter's death, and found its final expression in 

 the beautiful memoir of Agassiz which Guyot read before the 

 National Academy of Sciences in 1878. But of still greater 

 importance was the impulse toward the study of science 

 which he received from the enthusiastic group of young natu- 

 ralists with whom he was thus brought into daily and hourly 

 contact. He says of this period : " My remembrances of these 

 few months of alternate work and play, attended by so much 

 real progress, are among the most delightful of my early days. 

 ... It would be idle to attempt to determine the measure of 

 mutual benefit derived by these young students of Nature 



