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the lithographer. Braun had two sisters 

 and two intimate friends 5 the result was 

 exactly what might have been expected. 

 From choice as well as from economy 

 the young men used often to make part 

 of the journey to Carlsruhe on foot ; and 

 in several vacations they made further 

 expeditions to see such museums as were 

 within reach or to visit any scientific 

 men to whom they could get introduc- 

 tions, and to make themselves familiar 

 with the best private collections in their 

 part of Germany. Agassiz says that at 

 the end of his student life he knew every 

 animal, living and fossil, in the mu- 

 seums of Munich, Stuttgart, Tubingen, 

 Erlangen, Wiirzburg, Carlsruhe, and 

 Frankfort ; had travelled on foot all over 

 Southern Germany, and had explored 

 extensive tracts of the Alps. The Frank- 

 fort Museum had recently been greatly 

 enriched by foreign collections, and the 

 collector was shortly to go again to 

 Africa. Agassiz longed to accompany 



