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tivated in almost every part of the world, were imported 

 into Chile from the free States of North America. 



Professor Domeyko, who possesses a most admirable geo- 

 logical and mineralogical collection, presented the Expedition 

 with a choice selection of interesting and costly ores from the 

 copper, silver, cobalt, and quicksilver mines of the country ; 

 and although the rich stores of publications and geological 

 sjDecimens with which the director of the Geological Institu- 

 tion of the Austrian Empire, Counsellor Haidinger, had pro- 

 vided for the purpose to present them to scientific institutions 

 in the different foreign countries visited, was already ex- 

 hausted and done away with, yet we had at least the satis- 

 faction of learning that the Imperial Institute of Geology,* 

 whose eminent director has extended throughout the world 

 the renown of Austria, as a pioneer of geology, maintains 

 already an active correspondence with the managers of the 

 museum of the Chilean Republic. 



Very soon after our arrival at Santiago, our Commodore 

 was honoured with a special audience by the President of the 

 Republic, H. E. Don Manuel Montt. The Commodore was 

 accompanied by the Austrian Consul-general and the author 

 of this narrative. The reception came off in a plain but 



* Mr. Haidinger, who at the veiy first exerted himself to the utmost of his ability 

 and. patriotism to promote the objects of the Novara Expedition, was so thoughtfully- 

 kind as to provide the geologist attached to it with a number of copies of publications 

 of the Imperial Institute, as well as a corresponding number of neat little specimens 

 of tertiary petrifactions from the Vienna basin, for the purpose of presenting them to 

 kindred institutes in different quarters of the globe. 



