CHAPTER V. 



THE LITTLE ACADEMY. 



In Munich — The Journey — Stuttgart Museum — The Little Academy 

 — First Lectures — An Audience of Learned Men — A Room and 

 a Museum — Daily Routine — Objections to a Medical Career — 

 Desire for Travel. 



men as Oken, Schubert, Fuchs and others, not to 

 speak of rich museums for study and observation. 



Agassiz had already cast longing eyes at Munich. 

 He believed that up to the present time he had neg- 

 lected his philosophical education, and now saw in 

 the suggestion of Braun an opportunity to recover 



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August, 1827, Agassiz 

 received a letter from 

 his friend Braun an- 

 nouncing that he had 

 decided to go to Munich 

 and inviting him to join 

 him. The inducements 

 held out were free lec- 

 tures, lodgings as cheap 

 as at Heidelberg, theatre 

 open to students at a 

 very moderate sum, and 

 the association of such 



