LOUIS AGASSIZ 11 



Agassiz as a second home, and whose sis- 

 ter C6cile afterward became Agassiz' s 

 wife. Tiedemann, the professor of anat- 

 omy at Heidelberg, l c who must have had 

 a quick eye for affinities in the moral as 

 well as in the physical world,' 7 had sep- 

 arately advised each of the young men 

 to seek the acquaintance of the other. 

 At the first anatomical lecture the two 

 students happened to sit together 5 and 

 each, observing the careful and intelli- 

 gent note-taking of the other, was con- 

 vinced that this must be the student who 

 had been recommended to him. Thus, 

 by a mutual impulse, when they rose 

 to go, each called the other by name. 

 Tiedemann' s little plot stood revealed, 

 and never was a match-maker more 

 brilliantly successful. It was an inti- 

 macy at first sight which lasted for life. 

 The two boys left the room together, 

 and from that moment their work was 

 carried on in concert. Karl Schimper, a 

 third young fellow of even greater abil- 



