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ways intertwined, for with Agassiz his 

 work was his life, and everything smacks 

 of the investigator. His poverty is al- 

 ways conspicuous. He is continually 

 trying to earn something, but always 

 under a sort of protest at the disagree- 

 able necessity. But, where the end was 

 scientific, no expense staggered Louis 

 Agassiz. " These things are needed for 

 the work/' was a sufficient answer. His 

 first publisher having died, and the suc- 

 cessors hesitating to assume responsibility 

 for the Fossil Fishes, Agassiz decided to 

 publish at his own expense; and, as 

 plates could be more satisfactorily ex- 

 ecuted under his own eye, he promptly 

 founded and made himself responsible 

 for the maintenance of a lithographing 

 and printing establishment in Neuch&tel. 

 After this it is an anti- climax to refer to 

 the guides and scientific apparatus taken 

 to the glaciers or to the artists sent to 

 England to sketch fossil fishes. With a 

 yearly deficit distinctly larger than one's 



