Winning Fame. 



fact that shells were studied without regard to the 

 living portion attracted his attention, and, as a re- 

 sult, he began moulding the interior of shells, thus 

 producing casts of the animals. One of his books, 

 Etudes Critiques sur les Mollusques Fossiles, with 

 many fine plates, was a partial result of this 

 discovery. 



In this year, 1838, Agassiz was honoured with 

 membership by the Royal Society of London, his 

 name having been presented by Sir Philip Edgerton. 

 He was now thirty years of age, yet few scientists in 

 all Europe had greater results to show than this 

 young teacher, who in his own estimation had but 

 begun his career as a man of letters and science. 



