CHAPTER X. 



WINNING FAME. 



Curiosity of English Scientists to see Agassiz — New Honours. — 

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

 Proffers of Professorships. 



N the year 1833 there was 

 intense curiosity among 

 English naturalists to see 

 the young Swiss teacher, 

 who had carried off the 

 Wollaston prize, and in 

 1834 this was gratified, 

 Agassiz having decided to 

 make the trip to England. 

 He was assured a warm 

 welcome and received it 

 from every quarter espec- 

 ially from the great Eng- 

 lish savants. He now met Sir Charles Lyell and 

 Murchison, the geologists, the genial Buckland, Sir 

 Philip Egerton, Lord Cole, and many more who 

 received him cordially and opened to him the 

 palaeontological treasures of Great Britain. Still 

 in the developmental stage, Agassiz needed the 



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