. 76.] TO J. D. HOOKER. 795 



than tliis in 1881, to find snow down even to foothills 

 of the Jura and on Mont Saleve ; it came two days 

 ago, and the air, though clear, is very chilly, which is 

 not to my liking. 



Vienna was much better, excepting our last day, 

 which had a cold and high wind, and our night jour- 

 ney to Munich was cold and comfortless, in spite of 

 the best appliances. 



I have nothing new to tell you of Vienna, where 

 we made out our full week, quite enjoyingly. 



Besides the normal sight-seeing, and drives around 

 this truly magnificent city, we went one afternoon to 

 the astronomical observatory out at Wahring (Weiss 

 and wife being old acquaintances), and next day they 

 went with us to the Prater. Korner and daughter took 

 us to Schonbrunn. I went with these to a meeting of 

 the Academy of Sciences ; had a good turn around the 

 new and immense, but mostly yet unarranged, Natural 

 History Museum with Hauer, the director, and Stein- 

 dachner, the zoological curator; had a look at the 

 Hofherbarium on the upper floor, now under charge 

 of a young man, Beck (and looked up some of 

 Haenke's things there). How different from forty- 

 eight years ago, when Endlicher was curator, Fenzl, 

 assistant, and the former took me out to the Botanic 

 Garden to call on old Jacquin, etc. Steindachner, who 

 was with Agassiz for a year or two at Cambridge, 

 would have us come to his house for our last even- 

 ing ; Suss l and frau to meet us, charming couple ; 

 would have been lots more, but we cut it short ; had a 

 jolly, pleasant evening. Korner was prevented from 

 coming. He has been asked to take Eichler's 2 place 



1 Eduard Siiss ; professor of paleontology at Vienna. 



2 A. W. Eichler, 1839-1887 ; succeeded Alexander Braun at Berlin. 



