JEAN LOUIS RODOL?H& 

 AGASSIZ. 



I. 



JEAN Louis EODOLPHE AGASSIZ was 

 born at Motier in 1807. His father was 

 pastor of the little Swiss village on the 

 Lake of Mor&t, and was also a teacher of 

 marked ability, so that the passionate 

 love of teaching which always distin- 

 guished Louis Agassiz may have been in 

 some sort an inheritance. The enthusi- 

 asm both for work and for play which 

 was so marked in the man was marked 

 also in the child. From his early child- 

 hood the boy delighted in birds and 

 beasts, fishes and insects, first in the way 

 of an equal and intimate friend and then 

 of a budding naturalist. He was always 

 tramping the fields and scouring the 

 banks of the lake in search of new creat- 

 ures 5 and he has left it on record that 

 the only punishment he remembers re- 

 ceiving from his father was in conse- 



