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rejected.' " But it was very little later 

 that Braun wrote liome again, announc- 

 ing what lie calls "our return from the 

 Ural Mountains. " 



We have tried to make Agassiz paint 

 his own portrait; but we may add a 

 description given by Mr. Dinkel, the 

 draughtsman already quoted : "He was 

 at that time scarcely twenty years old, 

 and was already the most prominent 

 among the students at Munich. They 

 loved him, and had a high consideration 

 for him. I had seen him at the Swiss 

 students' club several times, and had 

 observed him among the jolly students. 

 He liked merry society, but he himself 

 was in general reserved and never noisy. 

 He picked out the gifted and highly 

 learned students, and would not waste 

 his time in ordinary conversation. 

 Often, when he saw a number of stu- 

 dents going off on some empty pleasure- 

 trip, he said to me : < There they go with 

 the other fellows: their motto is, Ich 



