
          of the invitation, nor the plan. Agassiz does 
 understand, and appreciate it. He also held 
 himself boundly his promise freely made to me, 
 to come if you invited him, and had Stevens 
 written at once, even then he would have come, 
 for he kept back his reply to the Committee 
 who asked for the glacier-lectures for some 
 time, in order to hear from New York. With 
 a little more promptness, your invitation might have 
 been in his hands before that was made. 
 (You must understand that the promised lectures 
 on embryology, for the summer Medical School 
 were smaller matters to be arranged to meet his 
 convenience, any time next summer, & probably 
 will not be given until he returns from the west.) 


 It turns out much better for A. [Agassiz] to remain 
 here, for a simple course will eke out his means 
 for the coming season very well. & by that now
 delivering he is doing better than he could elsewhere, 
 with a little bother. A Society in Boston that has 
 funds, in learning that he would lecture, officially 
 assumed the invitation for the purpose of relieving 
 him from all care & risk, took the whole management, 
 and I am told mean to pay themselves 
 for the room, lights, & attendance, giving A. [Agassiz] a
 sound check for the whole proceeds from the tickets. 
 The room engaged for the purpose, is perfectly 
 filled, and that too with the best of audiences, the
        