CHAPTER XIIL 



AGASSIZ AT HARVARD. 



The Scientific School at Cambridge — A Professorship Tendered — The 

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

 Comparative Zoology — ^Agassiz and the Coast Survey — Trip to 

 Lake Superior — Second Marriage — Expedition to the Florida 

 Reef — Acceptance of a Professorship in the Charleston Medical 

 College — 111 Health — Return to Cambridge. 



N 1848 the King of Prussia 

 gave Agassiz an honourable 

 discharge from his service, 

 and the naturalist was free 

 to turn in any direction that 

 he desired. It so happened 

 that Amos Lawrence now 

 founded a scientific school 

 at Cambridge as a branch 

 of Harvard University, and 

 having been attracted by the 

 brilliant attainments of the 

 Swiss scientist, he offered 

 him the chair of Natural History with a salary of 

 fifteen hundred dollars. This Agassiz accepted in 

 1 848, and at the age of forty he became a professor of 

 the University at Harvard, with Felton, Longfellow, 

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