1874.] r";i 233 [Waterston. 



tinues Agassiz, " it was my privilege to visit him frequently. 

 There he gave me leave to come, to talk with him about my 

 work, and consult him in my difficulties." 



At this time Agassiz was twenty-four years of age, and 

 Humboldt sixty-two. 



"I had recently," says Agassiz, " taken my degree as Doc- 

 ter of Medicine, and was struggling, not only for a scientific 

 position, but for the means of existence also. I have said 

 that he gave me permission to come as often as I pleased to 

 his room, opening to me freely the inestimable advantages 

 which intercourse with such a man gave to a young investi- 

 gator like myself. But he did far more than this, occupied 

 and surrounded as he was, he sought me out in my lodging." 



Here he gives a most interesting account of a visit from 

 Humboldt, at Agassiz's narrow quarters, in the Hotel du 

 Jardin des Plantes. After which is an invitation from Hum- 

 boldt, to meet him at the Palais Royal — where they dine, — 

 " a rare indulgence," says Agassiz, " for a young man, who 

 could allow himself few luxuries." "Here," he adds, "for three 

 hours, which passed like a dream, I had him all to myself. 

 How he examined me, and how much I learned in that short 

 time ! How to work, what to do, and what to avoid ; how to 

 live, how to distribute my time ; what methods of study to 

 pursue ; these were the things of which he talked to me, on 

 that delightful evening." 



When we reflect upon the extended reputation acquired 

 by Agassiz before he left Europe ; of that visit to this coun- 

 try which led him gladly to adopt it as his home, and of the 

 untiring zeal with which he devoted to it the best years of 

 his life ; shall we not hold in grateful remembrance the man 



