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he was taking a final leave of his cabin among the rocks and ice. Affairs connected with the welfare of the institution in Neuchatel, with which he had been so long connected, still detained him for a part of the winter, and he did not leave for Paris until the first week in March, 1846.
His wife and daughters had already preceded him to Germany, where he was to join them again on his way to Paris, and where they were to pass the period of his absence, under the care of his brother-in-law, Mr. Alexander Braun, then living at Carlsruhe.
His son was to remain at school at Neuchatel.
It was two o'clock at night when he left his home of so many years.
There had been a general sadness at the thought of his departure, and every testimony of affection and respect accompanied him. The students came in procession with torchlights to give him a parting serenade, and many of his friends and colleagues were also present to bid him farewell.
M. Louis Favre says in his Memoir, ‘Great was the emotion at Neuchatel when the report was spread abroad that Agassiz was about to leave for a long journey.
It is true he promised to come back, but the New World might shower upon him such marvels ’
Houghton, Mifflin and company, New York, Boston, 1885.
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