46 LOUIS AGASSIZ 



coldness of the world and his own unim- 

 portance in it. In Munich he had been 

 a leader, but in Munich every one was 

 poor. In Paris there was wealth and 

 position even among scientific men, and 

 Agassiz's poverty was much more notice- 

 able. He had about forty dollars a 

 month ; a draughtsman was to him the 

 first of necessary expenses, and his work 

 had become such that only the museums 

 of a large city could supply the proper 

 collections of fossil fishes. He lived in 

 terror of being forced to give up work. 

 He had no presentable coat for evening 

 wear, and in writing home he confessed 

 that his delay in sending some book to 

 his brother meant that its price would 

 have left him absolutely penniless. 



Now that he stands at the parting of 

 the ways between medicine and zoology, 

 his attempts to make science pay its own 

 expenses are interesting. The first step 

 was to find a professorship, but this 

 was by no means all. Teaching, how- 



