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Fishes ; ' the plates of the second are finished, but 

 I was greatly embarrassed to know how to print a 

 sufficient number of copies before the returns from 

 the first should be paid in. The text is ready also, 

 so that now, in a fortnight, I can begin the distri- 

 bution, and, the rotation once established, I hope 

 that preceding numbers will always enable me to 

 publish the next in succession without interruption. 

 I even count upon this resource as affording me 

 the means of making a journey to England before 

 long." 



In August, 1834, Agassiz went to England, and 

 there formed delightful friendships with such men 

 as Lyell, Murchison, Buckland, and others. He 

 was allowed to cull, from sixty or more collections, 

 some two thousand fossil fishes, and deposit them 

 in the Somerset House in London, where Mr. Din- 

 kel, the artist, remained for several years at work, 

 copying. 



In the summer of 1836, he began his remarkable 

 study of the glaciers. He was so cramped for 

 means to carry forward his " Fossil Fishes," that it 

 seemed probable that he must discontinue it, when 

 opportunely his original drawings were purchased 

 by Lord Francis Egerton and given to the British 

 Museum. The financial condition was thus bet- 

 tered for a time. 



His investigation of the slopes of the Jura led 

 to an address before the Helvetic Association as- 

 sembled at Neuchatel in 1837, in which he said : 

 " Siberian winter established itself for a time over 



