Chapter 13: 1846: Aet. 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.
Agassiz arrived in Boston during the first week of October, 1846. He had not come to America without some prospect of employment beside that comprised in his immediate scientific aims. In 1845, when his plans for a journey in the United States began to take definite shape, he had written to ask Lyell whether, notwithstanding his imperfect English, he might not have some chance as a public lecturer, hoping to make in that way additional provision for his scientific expenses
