260 HAECKEL 



August 21, 1900, and (after a brief visit to the 

 exhibition at Paris) took ship at Genoa, on 

 September 4th, for Singapore. His beloved Italy 

 had provided part of the cost of the journey. In 

 the previous year the Royal Academy of Science at 

 Turin had awarded him the Bressa-prize (consisting 

 of 10,000 lire) on account of his Systematic 

 Phytogeny. Once more the tropics revived the 

 great impression made on him in his earlier visit. 

 This time he spent only a few hours in Ceylon, 

 and sailed further south. He landed at Singapore 

 on September 27th, and sixteen days afterwards 

 went on to Java, and thus crossed the equator at 

 last. He enjoyed to the full the charms of the 

 landscape with its volcanoes and virgin forests, 

 during his stay with Treub at Buitenzorg, at 

 Tjibodas, and during his long journey across the 

 greater part of the island. At Tjibodas he cele- 

 brated the close of the nineteenth century [German 

 calculation] by painting a fine water-colour of the 

 smoke-canopy over the summit of the volcano 

 Gedeh, touched and gilded by the east rays of the 

 sun on the last day of 1900. On January 23, 1901, 

 he went from Batavia to Sumatra, crossed the 

 Sunda Strait in sight of the famous volcanic ruins 

 of Krakatoa, and spent six weeks in Padang on 

 the south-west coast of Sumatra. This delay was 

 largely involuntary , and due to an injury to his knee, 

 caused by stumbling over a rail during a visit to 

 an engineering establishment ; but the time was 

 by no means lost in the middle of such glories. 

 On March 31st he landed in Europe (at Naples) 



