
          Cambridge, Jany. [January] 4, 1847. 
 Monday Morning 


 My Dear Friend 


 Your favor of Dec. 30-31 reached me 
 on Friday. On Saturday Agassiz [crossed out: &?] [added: was] with 
 me, and I now hasten to present his views. 


 I find I was right in thinking he would prefer 
 the select and more scientific audience in 
 your College Lecture-room, to a fashionable 
 crowd at the Tabernacle. He says he
 does not want to lecture any more, but to devote 
 his time to scientific labors & researches, and that 
 the inducements that would weigh with him in
 accepting your invitation, are not the cash that 
 might come to his pocket, but the good he might 
 do to science. If your Professors therefore
  write him (and I think they would hit the nail 
 on the head by doing so) he wishes me to say, 
 on the one hand, that he would expect you take
 the charge of the whole arrangements yourselves, so that
 he may have no thought about tickets, attendance, 
 and all that, and also that your scheme of 200 
 secular tickets at $3, & (or medical at $2, would be quite 
 satisfactory, and, on the other hand, that he shall 
 come, if, on consideration, you think best to invite him, 
 without any chaffering or grumbling in case [crossed out: you]
        