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Sciences at Neuchatel. It was withdrawn by Guyot when he 

 came to America, and was not printed in full until 1883, when 

 he acceded to the request of the society for permission to do 

 this. Throughout all these years Guyot never claimed the 

 honour due him, contenting himself with a simple statement of 

 the facts after the death of Agassiz. 



In 1839 Guyot accepted a call to the Academy of Neucha- 

 tel, where Agassiz was already settled, and there he remained 

 till his removal to America in 1848. His chair was that of 

 History and Physical Geography, and he regarded the years of 

 his work there as the period of his greatest intellectual ac- 

 tivity. During this time he gave much attention to his glacial 

 work, taking up the geological side of the question, the erratic 

 blocks and ancient extension of the glaciers, and devoting to 

 this work ''absolutely single-handed, seven laborious sum- 

 mers, from 1840 to 1847." This gigantic undertaking was 

 brought to a successful conclusion, though the results were but 

 partially published, inasmuch as the Systeme Glaciaire, by 

 Agassiz, Guyot, and Desor, never went further than the first 

 volume (Paris, 1847). Guyot's collection of five thousand speci- 

 mens chipped from erratic rocks, illustrating eleven erratic 

 basins, now fills a room in the Princeton Museum, a monument 

 of painstaking labour. A duplicate set was deposited in the 

 Museum of the Academy of Neuchatel. 



The political disturbances of 1848 upset the plan for the 

 glacial publication as it did many others. Guyot now followed 

 his friend Agassiz to America, and lived for some time at Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts. After he had got settled in this coun- 

 try he brought over his mother, two sisters, a nephew, and 

 two nieces. During his first winter he delivered in Boston, in 

 the Lowell Institute course, the remarkable series of lectures 

 afterward published in the well-known book Earth and Man. 

 They were delivered in French and translated for publication 

 by Prof. Felton. These lectures were the starting-point of a 

 great reform in the historical and geographical teaching of 

 this country. For six years he was engaged by the Board of 

 Education of Massachusetts as a lecturer to the normal schools 

 on geography and the methods of teaching it, and after leav- 

 ing the service of that State he followed up the work there 

 commenced by preparing a series of geographical text-books 

 and large maps. To use the words of a writer in Science with 



