320 LOUIS AGASSIZ. 



museums of Munich, Stuttgart, Tubingen, Erlangen, 

 Wurzburg, Carlsruhe, and Frankfort ; but my pros- 

 pects were as dark as ever, and I saw no hope of 

 making my way in the world, except by the practi- 

 cal pursuit of my profession as physician." 



December 4, 1830, Agassiz said good-by to Mu- 

 nich, and started with Mr. Dinkel, his artist, for 

 Concise, his father having moved there from Orbe. 

 Here he remained a year, arranging, meantime, 

 his own valuable collections in natural history, at 

 the house of his grandfather Mayor, at Cudrefin, 

 on Lake Neuchatel, and practising a little in medi- 

 cine, in the neighboring villages. 



He longed to go to Paris for study, but poverty 

 was his constant companion. Finally, an old friend 

 of his father, a Swiss clergyman, M. Christinot, 

 having come into possession of a small amount of 

 money, urged his young friend to take it. His 

 uncle also contributed a little, and Agassiz and 

 Dinkel left for Paris in September, 1831. 



On their arrival they found inexpensive lodgings, 

 and at once began to work in the museums. He 

 writes to his sister Olympe : " M. Cuvier and M. 

 Humboldt especially treat me on all occasions as 

 an equal, and facilitate for me the use of the scien- 

 tific collections so that I can work here as if I were 

 at home. ... In the morning I follow the chemi- 

 cal courses at the Pitie. ... At ten o'clock, or 

 perhaps at eleven, I breakfast, and then go to the 

 Museum of Natural History, where I stay till dark. 

 Between five and six I dine, and after that turn to 



