54 LOUIS AGASSIZ 



full blast. Desor was Ms assistant at 

 Neuch&tel ; and Vogt, the laughter- 

 loving materialist, was also (so sarcastic 

 is fate) trained by Agassiz. Yogt may 

 really be said to exist in literature as 

 well as in science through his much- 

 refuted dictum that "the brain secretes 

 thought as the liver secretes bile. 7 ' The 

 number of Agassiz' s aids and pupils who 

 became naturalists of repute speaks for 

 itself, as does the number who chose to 

 follow him to America. Let us add that 

 the boy employed at Neuchatel to run 

 on errands and clean the boots became 

 a scientific man, and that, when Agassiz 

 left NeucMtel, the town, after having 

 been for thirteen years a centre of scien- 

 tific activity, relapsed at once into its 

 normal and placid uniinportance. 



As for the vacations, three journeys 

 to England and many summers spent 

 among, on, and even in the Alpine 

 glaciers, give interesting reading. The 

 scientific and personal interest are al- 



