Chapter 5: 1830-1832: Aet. 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.
On the 4th of December, 1830, Agassiz left Munich, in company with Mr. Dinkel, and after a short stay at St. Gallen and Zurich, spent in looking up fossil fishes and making drawings of them, they reached Concise on the 30th of the same month. Anxiously as his return was awaited at home, we have seen that his father was not without apprehension lest the presence of the naturalist, with artist, specimens, and apparatus, should be an inconvenience in the quiet parsonage. But every obstacle yielded to the joy of reunion, and Agassiz was soon established with his ‘painter,’ his fossils, and all his scientific outfit, under the paternal roof. Thus quietly engaged in his ichthyological studies, carrying on his work on the fossil
