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skeletons more or less perfect. Besides these, I was presented 

 with a very valuable complete skeleton of the Falajpteryx 

 ingens (Owen), from the Nelson Museum, so that the collec- 

 tion of remains * of the Moa, which I brought back with me 

 to Vienna, is scarcely, if at all, inferior to the valuable series 

 of relics of an extinct race of birds which at present adorns 

 the British Museum. 



' ' I must express my thankful sense of the kindness with 

 which my friends Dr. Monro, Capt. Rough Travers, Messrs. 

 Adams, Curtis, and many others, contributed minerals, plants, 

 and zoological specimens to the enrichment of my collections 

 of natural history. I am also deeply indebted to Messrs. 

 Campbell and Burnett for several exquisite landscape sketches, 

 and the Provincial Government for a variety of interesting 

 photographic pictures of the environs of Nelson. 



"It was with regret I tore myself from a region where 

 so much remained to discover, and so much hitherto unex- 

 amined to explore. In the higher and more remote regions 

 of the Southern Alps, never yet trodden by human foot, there 

 was nothing left for me to do. From the shores of the Ro- 

 toito lake (Lake Arthur) I could see the southernmost point 

 reached by me, where the lofty pinnacles of the southern 

 range, crowned with perpetual snow, rose grandly before me. 

 I could but picture to myself -the majesty and sublimity of 

 those hills, which my friend and travelling companion, J. 



* Of this wonderful bird a cast was moulded in gypsum, and has been sent to the 

 great International Exhibition, 1862. 



