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the lost ground. The offer was accepted with pleas- 

 ure, and the latter part of October, 1827, found 

 the two friends together again, journeying from 

 Carlsruhe to the University of Munich. The trip 

 was a most enjoyable one for the young men, and 

 for Agassiz the longest and most important of his 

 life. The way led through Stuttgart, where for the 

 first time he visited a large and well-appointed 

 museum, the fine collections of which greatly im- 

 pressed him, many specimens being entirely new. 

 The mammoth attracted his attention, and in a let- 

 ter to his brother he referred to it as a carnivorous 

 animaV a belief entertained by naturalists at the 

 time. From Stuttgart they journeyed to Esslinger, 

 visiting Hochstetter and Strudel, two distinguished 

 botanists of the day, with whom they exchanged 

 specimens to their mutual advantage. At Goep- 

 pingen they tarried to visit the owner of a fine col- 

 lection of fossils, also one of shells not known to 

 him, from, the Adriatic, which the young men ar- 

 ranged and labelled for their host, receiving some of 

 the shells in return. In every place, from Ulm to 

 Augsburg, the travellers saw something to interest 

 them, and doubtless the trip terminated with regret. 



We find Agassiz soon domiciled in Munich at 

 the Sendlinger Thor No. 37, a locaHty now famous 

 for its association with the great naturalist. The 

 house was beyond the strict limits of the town, con- 

 venient to the Anatomical School and Hospitalwhere 

 Agassiz studied, and, better than all in his estima- 

 tion, commanding a view of the Tyrolean Alps which 

 he loved so well. 



