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went with me to the famous Mineralogical Cabinet, 

 the finest in the world. A most splendid affair it is. 

 It occupies a suite of quite ordinary rooms, but is 

 excellently arranged and shows to great advantage. 

 Here are all the fine gems, diamonds, emeralds, topaz, 

 and all sorts of precious stones, both polished and 

 natural. I saw also the bouquet of precious stones 

 made for Maria Theresa, a most brilliant affair. The 

 collection of aerolites is unique. I intend to visit it 

 again on Saturday. I obtained some useful informa- 

 tion here as to the mode of constructing the shelves, 

 etc., in a mineralogical cabinet ; their plan here is the 

 best I have seen. If I knew what I now do, I could 

 have given a plan for the construction of the cabi- 

 nets at the Lyceum infinitely better than the present. 

 Returning 1 to the Botanical Gallery I occupied myself 

 in selecting specimens for myself from Rugel's New 

 Holland collections. Endlicher offers me these and 

 other plants, as many as I like. He also offered to 

 send to Hamburg for me a copy of the "Icono- 

 graphia Generum Plantarum," the " Annals of the Vi- 

 enna Museum," and some other of his works. After 

 dinner, finding nothing else to do for a few moments, I 

 went into a bookseller's, the publisher of Endlicher's 

 " Genera Plantarum," - to look up some reports on 

 education, etc. I asked also for botanical works ; and 

 after offering me several things which I did not want, 



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they brought out, as a great rarity, our own " Flora," 

 which I told them I did not want at all. At six 

 o'clock, Endlicher called upon me to take me to the 

 Botanic Garden of the university, under the care of 

 Baron Jacquin, who is professor, at the same time, of 

 both botany and chemistry in the university, and 

 scarcely lectures on either. He introduced me to the 



