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inal," writes one of the draughtsmen, 

 who further sums up the effect as that of 

 "a perfect German student's room. 7 ' 

 U I was some time there before I could 

 discover the real names of his friends : 

 each had a nickname, Molluscus, Cy- 

 prinus, Bhubarb, etc." The unwonted 

 luxury of several windows and of a little 

 entrance-room for his collections seems 

 to have caused much remark, but it was 

 not for these striking features that Agas- 

 siz thought his lodging worth remem- 

 brance. " In that room I made all the 

 skeletons represented on the plates of 

 Wagler's Natural System of Eeptiles; 

 there I once received the great anato- 

 mist Meckel, sent to me by Dollinger to 

 examine my anatomical preparations, 

 and especially the many fish skeletons 

 I had made from fresh- water fishes." 

 Braun takes the same fact from another 

 point of view, and writes home : "Un-, 

 der Agassiz's new style of housekeeping, 

 the coffee is made in a machine which 



