LOUIS AGASSIZ 13 



and intellectual, seems to have been the 

 rule; and there was no thought of the 

 tragic consequence which was to come 

 ten years later, when Schimper should 

 accuse first Braun and then Agassiz of 

 stealing his theories. Always petulant 

 and without self-control, Schimper was 

 incapable of carrying anything to a 

 finish 5 and he has left only a few scat- 

 tered botanical papers and two thin 

 volumes of poetry. But the expecta- 

 tions which his friends entertained of 

 him were boundless, and must have been 

 justified by his early brilliancy, though 

 the world has long since forgotten his 

 ineffectual fire. Braun, on the other 

 hand, if less world-famous than Agassiz, 

 is no less honoured among German bot- 

 anists. As late as 1864, Schimper wrote 

 that he was about to publish a botanical 

 work. Braun has indorsed the letter, 

 " May God grant it! " 



After a hard day's work in hearing 

 lectures, the Cl overleaf three, along with 



