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AFTER the work on Brazilian Fishes 

 was finished, and the degrees were taken, 

 two years intervened before Agassiz ob- 

 tained his professorship. There was a 

 short visit to Vienna, a last semester at 

 Munich, nine months at home in Switzer- 

 land, and nearly a year in Paris. In 

 Vienna Agassiz found himself received 

 as a known scientific man for whom no 

 letters of recommendation were neces- 

 sary, and this surprised as much as it 

 pleased him. Some one called him Ich- 

 ihyologus primus saeculi, and he saved 

 the ponderous compliment to send home. 



In the autumn of 1830 he left Munich 

 for good, and the Little Academy was 

 dismantled of all its trophies. Most of 

 these, indeed, had already been sent 

 home, with the suggestion that an uncle 

 "perhaps would have the kindness to let 

 some large shelves be put in the little 

 upper room . . . where, far from being 



