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with the Professors.
--Schelling, Martius, Oken, Dollinger.--Relations with
Fellow-Students.--The Little Academy.--Plans for Traveling.--Advice
from his Parents.--Vacation Journey.--Tri-Centennial Durer Festival at
Nuremberg.

CHAPTER 3.
1828-1829: AGE 21-22.
First Important Work in Natural History.--Spix's Brazilian Fishes.
--Second Vacation Trip.--Sketch of Work during University Year.
--Extracts from the Journal of Mr. Dinkel.--Home Letters.--Hope of
joining Humboldt's Asiatic Expedition.--Diploma of Philosophy.
--Completion of First Part of the Spix Fishes.--Letter concerning it
from Cuvier.

CHAPTER 4.
1829-1830: AGE 22-23.
Scientific Meeting at Heidelberg.--Visit at Home.--Illness and Death of
his Grandfather.--Return to Munich.--Plans for Future Scientific

Publications.--Takes his Degree of Medicine.--Visit to Vienna.--Return
to Munich.--Home Letters.--Last Days at Munich. --Autobiographical
Review of School and University Life.

CHAPTER 5.
1830-1832: AGE 23-25.
Year at Home.--Leaves Home for Paris.--Delays on the Road.
--Cholera.--Arrival in Paris.--First Visit to Cuvier.--Cuvier's
Kindness.--His Death.--Poverty in Paris.--Home Letters concerning
Embarrassments and about his Work.--Singular Dream.

CHAPTER 6.
1832: AGE 25.
Unexpected Relief from Difficulties.--Correspondence with Humboldt.
--Excursion to the Coast of Normandy.--First Sight of the Sea.
--Correspondence concerning Professorship at Neuchatel.--Birthday
Fete.--Invitation to Chair of Natural History at Neuchatel.
--Acceptance.--Letter to Humboldt.

CHAPTER 7.
1832-1834: AGE 25-27.
Enters upon his Professorship at Neuchatel.--First Lecture. --Success as
a Teacher.--Love of Teaching.--Influence upon the Scientific Life of
Neuchatel.--Proposal from University of Heidelberg.--Proposal
declined.--Threatened Blindness. --Correspondence with
Humboldt.--Marriage.--Invitation from Charpentier.--Invitation to visit

England.--Wollaston Prize.--First Number of "Poissons
Fossiles."--Review of the Work.

CHAPTER 8.
1834-1837: AGE 27-30.
First Visit to England.--Reception by Scientific Men.--Work on Fossil
Fishes there.--Liberality of English Naturalists.--First Relations with
American Science.--Farther Correspondence with Humboldt.--Second
Visit to England.--Continuation of "Fossil Fishes."--Other Scientific
Publications.--Attention drawn to Glacial Phenomena.--Summer at Bex
with Charpentier.--Sale of Original Drawings for "Fossil
Fishes."--Meeting of Helvetic Society.--Address on Ice-Period.--Letters
from Humboldt and Von Buch.

CHAPTER 9.
1837-1839: AGE 30-32.
Invitation to Professorships at Geneva and Lausanne.--Death of his
Father.--Establishment of Lithographic Press at Neuchatel.
--Researches upon Structure of Mollusks.--Internal Casts of Shells.
--Glacial Explorations.--Views of Buckland.--Relations with Arnold
Guyot.--Their Work together in the Alps.--Letter to Sir Philip Egerton
concerning Glacial Work.--Summer of 1839.--Publication of "Etudes
sur les Glaciers."

CHAPTER 10.
1840-1842: AGE 33-35.

Summer Station on the Glacier of the Aar.--Hotel des Neuchatelois.
--Members of the Party.--Work on the Glacier.--Ascent of the Strahleck
and the Siedelhorn.--Visit to England.--Search for Glacial Remains in
Great Britain.--Roads of Glen Roy.--Views of English Naturalists
concerning Agassiz's Glacial Theory.--Letter from Humboldt.--Winter
Visit to Glacier.--Summer of 1841 on the Glacier.--Descent into the
Glacier.--Ascent of the Jungfrau.

CHAPTER 11.
1842-1843: AGE 35-36.
Zoological Work uninterrupted by Glacial Researches.--Various
Publications.--"Nomenclator Zoologicus."--"Bibliographia Zoologiae et
Geologiae."--Correspondence with English Naturalists.
--Correspondence with Humboldt.--Glacial Campaign of 1842.
--Correspondence with Prince de Canino concerning Journey to United
States.--Fossil Fishes from the Old Red Sandstone.--Glacial Campaign
of 1843.--Death of Leuthold, the Guide.

CHAPTER 12.
1843-1846: AGE 36-39.
Completion of Fossil Fishes.--Followed by Fossil Fishes of the Old
Red Sandstone.--Review of the Later Work.--Identification of Fishes
by the Skull.--Renewed Correspondence with Prince Canino about
Journey to the United States.--Change of Plan owing to the Interest of
the King of Prussia in the Expedition.--Correspondence between
Professor Sedgwick and Agassiz on Development Theory.--Final
Scientific Work in Neuchatel and Paris.--Publication of "Systeme
Glaciaire."--Short Stay in England.--Farewell Letter from Humboldt.
--Sails for United States.

CHAPTER 13.
1846: AGE 39.
Arrival at Boston.--Previous Correspondence with Charles Lyell and
Mr. John A. Lowell concerning Lectures at the Lowell Institute.
--Relations with Mr. Lowell.--First Course of Lectures.--Character of
Audience.--Home Letter giving an Account of his first Journey in the
United States.--Impressions of Scientific Men, Scientific Institutions
and Collections.

CHAPTER 14.
1846-1847: AGE 39-40.
Course of Lectures in Boston on Glaciers.--Correspondence with
Scientific Friends in Europe.--House in East Boston.--Household and
Housekeeping.--Illness.--Letter to Elie de Beaumont.--Letter to James
D. Dana.

CHAPTER 15.
1847-1850: AGE 40-43.
Excursions on Coast Survey Steamer.--Relations with Dr. Bache, the
Superintendent of the Coast Survey.--Political Disturbances in
Switzerland.--Change of Relations with Prussia.--Scientific School
established in Cambridge.--Chair of Natural History offered to
Agassiz.--Acceptance.--Removal to Cambridge.--Literary and
Scientific Associations there and in Boston.--Household in
Cambridge.--Beginning of Museum.--Journey to Lake Superior.--"
Report, with Narration."--"Principles of Zoology," by Agassiz and

Gould.--Letters from European Friends respecting these
Publications.--Letter from Hugh Miller.--Second Marriage.--Arrival of
his Children in America.

CHAPTER 16.
1850-1852: AGE 43-45.
Proposition from Dr. Bache.--Exploration of Florida Reefs.--Letter to
Humboldt concerning Work in America.--Appointment to
Professorship of Medical College in Charleston, S.C.--Life at the
South.--Views concerning Races of Men.--Prix Cuvier.

CHAPTER 17.
1852-1855: AGE 45-48.
Return to Cambridge.--Anxiety about Collections.--Purchase of
Collections.--Second Winter in Charleston.--Illness.--Letter to James D.
Dana concerning Geographical Distribution and Geological Succession
of Animals.--Resignation of Charleston Professorship. --Propositions
from Zurich.--Letter to Oswald Heer.--Decision to remain in
Cambridge.--Letters to James D. Dana, S.S. Haldeman, and Others
respecting Collections illustrative of the Distribution of Fishes, Shells,
etc., in our Rivers.--Establishment of School for Girls.

CHAPTER 18.
1855-1860: AGE 48-53.
"Contributions to Natural History of