26 LOUIS AGASSIZ 



This is Braun' s account. Agassiz's is 

 almost word for word the same, and 

 adds: "This is the course of my daily 

 life, with the single exception that some- 

 times Braun and I pass an evening with 

 some professor, discussing with all our 

 might and main subjects of which we 

 often know nothing. This does not, 

 however, lessen the animation of the 

 talk. ' ? And so again Braun : ' There is 

 a charming custom here of going to the 

 professors' houses on certain evenings. 

 It is all as informal as at a Kneipe ; and 

 the talk is on all imaginable things, both 

 in science and in every- day affairs. At 

 Martins' house they generally give us 

 tea 5 at Okeii's, beer ; and to every 

 man a pipe with his name written on 

 it. When all have their little white 

 pipes in their mouths, it is quite Dutch." 



These boys seem to have the knack of 

 finding thirty-six hours instead of twen- 

 ty-four. One wonders whether nervous 

 prostration had then been invented. In 



