Historical Sketch of the Boston Society of Natural History With a Notice of the
Historical Sketch of the Boston Society of Natural History With a Notice of the
Thomas Tracy Bouv
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In the latter, a lengthy extract is introduced. [See Vol. N, pp. 179, 180 and 181. ] There were several occasions upon which Alexander von Humboldt extended such attention and kindness to Agassiz, at a time when encouragement was most needed, that it seems but an act of justice and gratitude to recall them here. The first was related by Agassiz some fifteen years ago, at a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, soon after Humboldt's death. " May I be permitted, " he said, " to te...ll a circumstance personal to me ? I was only twenty-four years of age when in Paris, whither I had gone with means given me by a friend, but I was at last about to resign my studies from want of ability to meet my expenses. Professor Mitscherlich was then on a visit in Paris, and I had seen him in the morning, when he had asked me what was the cause of my depressed feelings, and I told him I had to go, for I had nothing left. The next morning as I was seated at breakfast, in front of the yard of the Hotel, where I lived, I saw the servant of Humboldt approach.
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