88 LOUIS AGASSIZ 



cepted by Agassiz. His private life was 

 forming again in America. His son of 

 fourteen years came out to him in 1849, 

 and in 1850 Agassiz 's second marriage 

 (to Elizabeth* Cabot Gary) made him an 

 American at heart, and brought his 

 daughters to a new home in Cambridge. 

 His wife from the first affected his scien- 

 tific as well as his private life ; for she 

 was to him secretary and assistant, and 

 even collaborator. She kept the scien- 

 tific journal of his two expeditions to 

 South America, and since her husband's 

 death has crowned her labours in his 

 behalf by a Life of Agassiz which makes 

 others feel their writings an imperti- 

 nence. 



