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knots around the room. They received me cordially after a general in- 

 troduction and in a few minutes I was busily engaged in answering ques- 

 tions on the condition of science in the United States. I had previous- 

 ly met with but few of these gentlemen, but I was resolved to find them 

 all out before the meeting closed. The President soon called to order 

 and vve seated ourselves around a long table. Whilst some informal 

 proceedings were going on, 1 asked Prof. Erichson, "Who is that old 

 gentleman, the chairman of the meeting ?" ''That is Link, Professor of 

 Botany." "O Yes! I've heard of him." Prof. Link is the author of 

 seventeen works on Botany, and some of them of no small compass. — 

 His writings are greatly admired by the learned in this science, and ho 

 Iras received honors from most of the scientiiic societies in Europe. — 

 He has travelled into various other countries and has gathered the bo- 

 tanical treasures of many foreign lands. He is now an aged man, but 

 still full of vivacity and takes as much interest as ever in his favoi-ite 

 science. Prof. Klug, with whom I had before become acquainted, sat 

 next to him. He too is an old man, but his energies have not failed, 

 and in conversation he is as sprightly as a youth. Klug is one of the 

 entomological lights of the age. I had long been familiar with his 

 works and had been indebted to him for some valuable exchanges. — 

 Though he is still a Professor in tlie University, yet 1 believe he does 

 not read lectures. He is chiefly occupied as an examinator of candi- 

 dates for medical degrees and is in some way connected with the medi- 

 cal police of the city. He commenced his career as a disciple of JEs- 

 culapius, but has distinguished himself particularly as a pupil of the 

 school of Linne. Most of his time has been devoted to Natural Histo- 

 ry. He is now Director of one of the departments of the University 

 Museum, and by the bounty of his Sovereign, he is relieved from ardu- 

 ous duties. He is an interesting old gentleman and profoundly versed 

 in Entomological science. 



" Professor, who are those two gentlemen that resemble each other 

 on the left of Klug r" " Those are the brothers Rose, the one nearest 

 Klug, is Prof, of Chemistry." "Is he the gentleman who accompanied 

 Humboldt to the Ural Mountains, and wrote the Manual of Analytical 

 Chemistry r" "The same, — his brother is Prof, of Geology." 



The next in order was John Muller, the great Physiologist of Ger- 

 many, and one of the most brilliant luminaries in the constellation of 

 European scientijiques. He is a universal genius and has received not 

 only the plaudits of the scientific world for his numerous and original 

 writings, but also orders and decorations from Sovereigns. Herlin is 

 pioud of John Midler. He i^ ralhtr a ijuiuii^bjli man, born during this 



