45 6 Voi/agc of the Novara. 



On the transcriber of the foregoing literary detail of the 

 incidents of the voyage of the Novara still devolves the task 

 of presenting a brief summary of the chief objects aimed at, 

 and the actual scientific results attained by the Imperial 

 Expedition, so as to moderate the exaggerated expectations of 

 one -set of readers, and to rectify the hasty, depreciatory 

 judgment of others, by stating obvious and convincing facts. 



He feels, above all, compelled to examine the question, which 

 not alone criticism but the entire educated world will address 

 with reference to an undertaking begun under such auspices 

 and of such universal interest, '' What are the actual results, 

 and what those to be anticipated from the Novara Expedition ? 

 How did its members respond to the efforts made to j^rovide 

 them with every possible appliance that munificence could 

 supply ? " 



In order aright to answer this query, whether the first 

 Austrian Expedition round the globe has really answered the 

 expectations formed of it, it is necessary to bear in mind 

 that its first and. foremost object was the instruction on an 

 adequate scale of the officers and midshipmen of the Imperial 

 navy, and that scientific investigation was always regarded 

 as of secondary importance to that chief object. 



The descriptive portion of the voyage of the Novara must 

 be considered simply as the precursor of a series of scientific 

 publications which, thanks to Imperial munificence, will be 

 published at the expense of the State. The nautico-physical 

 portion will include the astronomico-geodetical, magnetic, 



