To his father.
August, 1829.
. . . I hope by this time you have my book.
I can the less explain the delay since M. Cuvier, to whom I sent it in the same way, has acknowledged its arrival.
I inclose his letter, hoping it will give you pleasure to read what one of the greatest naturalists of the age writes me about it.Cuvier to Louis Agassiz.
Paris, Au Jardin du Roi, August 3, 1829.
. . You and M. de Martius have done me honor in placing my name at the head of a work so admirable as the one you have just published.
The importance and the rarity of the species therein described, as well as the beauty of the figures, will make the work an important one in ichthyology, and nothing could heighten its value more than the accuracy of your descriptions.
It will be of the greatest use to me in my History of Fishes.
I had already referred to the plates in the second edition of my ‘Regne Animal.’
I shall do all in my power to accelerate the sale among amateurs, either by showing it to such as meet at my house or by calling attention to it in scientific journals.
