Contents. 



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CHAPTER IX. 



PAGE 



THE YOUNG TEACHER 52 



First Lectures to Pupils — Departure for Neuchatel — Success 

 as a Teacher — Field Lectures — Call to Heidelberg — The 

 Chair Declined — Threatened Blindness — Preparing for it. 



CHAPTER X. 



WINNING FAME 59 



Curiosity of English Scientists to See Agassiz — New Honours 

 — Visit to Bex — Sale of Original Drawings — Glacial Theories 

 — Proffers of Professorships. 



CHAPTER XI. 



A GLACIER HUNT 68 



Interest in Glaciers — Opposition of Scientists — Visit to 

 Glaciers — The Hotel Neuchatelois — Curious Experiments 

 — Descent into the Glaciers — The Heart of a Glacier — 

 Ascent of the Jungfrau — Injecting Coloured Fluids — The 

 Work on Glaciers. 



CHAPTER XII. 



THE AMERICAN TRIP 83 



Glacial Studies — New Books — Variety of Works — Sugges- 

 tion of Prince Canino — An Opening in America — Plans for 

 the American Trip — The Monthyon Prize — Visit to Paris — 

 Arrival in Boston — First Lectures — American Scientists — 

 Impressions of America — Marine Studies — The Home in 

 East Boston. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



AGASSIZ AT HARVARD 97 



The Scientific School at Cambridge — A Professorship Ten- 

 dered — The Agassiz Household — Death of Mrs. Agassiz — 

 The Museum of Comparative Zoology — Agassiz and the Coast 

 Survey — Trip to Lake Superior — Second Marriage — Expedi- 

 tion to the Florida Reef — Acceptance of a Professorship in 

 the Charleston Medical College — 111 Health — Return to 

 Cambridge. 



