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x\merica , betw een Valparaiso and Panama , to spend more 

 than a fortni^jht at Lima and to be moreover aljle to ren- 

 der yet some services to science, while the Novara herself 

 was ah'eady under sail on her way home. 



» At Gibraltar Imet againthe frigate and returned on board 

 of her to Trieste , where Ave all safely arrived on the 26^'» 

 of August a. c. 



» The wliole cruise lasted 849 days , out of AvhichUöl days 

 have been spent at sea and 298 days on shore. The num- 

 ber of miles sailed during this period amounts to 60,914 

 english miles. Our different collections of objets of natural 

 history, embracing all three kingdoms of nature, are con- 

 siderable; they fill more than a hundred large cases and 

 are now about to be prepared, arranged and exhibited in 

 the „Augarten", one of the former Imperial summer-resi- 

 dences at Vienna. 



w Commodore Wuellerstorf , as well as the different mem- 

 bers of the scientific commission on board the Imperial fri- 

 gate, are now busily engaged in publishing the rich lite- 

 rary material , Avhich they have gathered with the kind as- 

 sistance of their learned friends in the different parts of 

 the globe they visited , and they are most generously sup- 

 ported in their endeavour by the Imperial government and 

 H. I. R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, un- 

 der whose noble auspices the Expedition was undertaken. 



» The nautical , astronomical , meteorological and magneti- 

 cal observations and results , in fact every thing relative 

 to the physical geography of the sea, shall be published 

 by Commodore Wuellerstorf himself or under his super- 

 intendence. 



» With regard to the different branches of natural history, 

 the zoological part shall be published by mess"- Frauenfeld 

 and Zelebor, the geological part by Dr. Hochstetter, the 

 botanical and medical part by Dr. Schwarz. 



» My own department embraces ethnograpy and political 

 economy; in short, man, in all his relations to the exter- 



