a widened Sierpebhohatnn with regard to the relations of phy 
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his preparation for work by studies from 1835 to 1839 at Paris. 
In 1839 he was called to the Professorship of History and Phys- 
ical Geography at Neuchatel, where Agassiz, his early compan- 
ion, and but four months his senior, had occupied, since 1832, the 
chair of Natural History 
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recently been named the Guyot Museum. Pekan’ 
The “Systeme Glaciaire,” published in 1847, has for its full 
title, “Systéme Glaciaire, ou Recherches sur les Glaciers, leur 
mecanisme, leur ancienne extension, et le réle quils ont joné 
“es PHistoire de la Terre, par MM. L. Agassiz, A. Guyot and 
bo revolutionary movements in Switzerland which were destruct: — 
Ive to the Neuchatel University. Guyot’s views appeared in brief > 
in the Bulletin of the Neuchatel Society of Natural Sciences, and : 
n 1848 Guyot came to ni country, following the course of 
Agassiz who reached America two years before. Switzerland 
lost much in this removal of two of het ablest professors, ee 
America gained vastly more. While Agassiz infused new ideas: 
into the people and the schools and other educational institutions: ; 
of the land as to the value of natural science and the methods . 
' instruction, Guyot gave, with like effect, new methods and 
