sincere liking and respect for these honest and uncompromising 

 Junkers. 



A visit to the hereditary seat of the von Goeler family, the "Schloss" 

 at Mauer, which had been in their possession since the fourteenth cen- 

 tury, proved to be of great interest. It was on this property that the 

 famous Heidelberg man {Homo heidelbergensis) was long subse- 

 quently found and made Mauer one of the most celebrated of archaeo- 

 logical localities, Uke Neanderthal, Cro Magnon, and Piltdown. But 

 that discovery was then in the future and our interest was of much more 

 recent date, for the "castle" retained so much of its primitive character. 

 The farmyard, with stables and cow barns, was at the very front door, 

 for purposes of defence against feudal enemies and, with the exception 

 of two or three rooms, the furniture and equipment were as bare and 

 plain as in our Leipsic pension. Yet, these were delightful people, much 

 more human and attractive than their brother nobles of Prussia. To 

 some members of the family I expressed my surprise that they, enUght- 

 ened as they were, should be such unbending Conservatives, and the 

 answer was instructive: "How can we be anything else? We are Chris- 

 tians and to be liberal in politics means to be anti-Christian, or even 

 atheistic." 



In this pre-examination period, I had less of diversion than ever, but 

 I did snatch an hour to hear one of Kuno Fischer's lectures on Faust, 

 a course which drew a larger audience of students than any other in 

 Heidelberg. Kuno Fischer was a great man in those days; what his 

 lasting reputation as a philosopher may be, I am unable to judge. He 

 was a curious looking man, with a face like a bulldog's and he played 

 upon this resemblance and upon his own name (kuon, kunos) by 

 keeping a pug, which he called Homo. I often met him and Homo 

 on their daily walks and the likeness between them was ludicrous. 

 Fischer was said to be very egotistical and his appearance tended to 

 confirm this, for he was always carefully, even fashionably dressed 

 and he walked with a slight swagger. Gadow used to say that his walk 

 seemed to proclaim him as saying to himself: "Ich bin der grosse Kuno; 

 ich bin der grosse Kuno," after the manner of the characters in Offen- 

 bach's La Belle Helene. 



I took advantage of the Whitsuntide holidays to make a trip to Bonn, 

 where I wanted to make arrangements with Krantz and Sturz as to 

 purchases of fossils. At Mainz I took the steamboat and spent the day 

 on the Rhine, finding it far more beautiful and interesting than I had 

 on my tour of the river five years before. Dr. Troschel, the distinguished 



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