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paints moonlight landscapes with body-colour; in fact he is 

 altogether rather sentimental, especially when he is reading 

 aloud and playing the flute, in which, however, he does not 

 excel, since he has no idea of time. He is the one in the 

 division who has his work most at heart, and gets into dis- 

 cussions, although he is tolerably orthodox and he has some 

 curious notions about art. Another advantage is that my room 

 is no longer crowded with the people who were attracted by 

 the playing of my former comrade. 



' I am one of the assistant-librarians for this term. It loses me 

 some two hours weekly, but is the only way to find out what 

 there is of any value in the library, among the endless heaps 

 of antiquated literature. 



1 We are expected to go to forty-two lectures a week in the 

 summer term. According to the time-table (which, however, 

 only accounts for thirty-nine, as they left out History) we have 

 only one lecture from four to five, or five to six, on the three 

 first afternoons of the week ; the three last are free. But most 

 mornings we go straight on from six till one. Mitscherlich's 

 Zoo-chemistry is a new lecture. We have six hours Botany 

 and six of Natural History with Link, six of Physiology with 

 Miiller, six of Chemistry, six of Zoo-chemistry with Mitscherlich. 

 The house lectures are three on History with Preuss, two 

 Latin with Hecker, one French with Gosshauer. Revisions 

 four in Chemistry, three Physiology (with Herr v. Besser, who 

 sits opposite Klotz at Muller's lectures), two Osteology, one 

 Botany. No Logic or Psychology, nor does Link ever lecture 

 on Mineralogy, although we have to take all these subjects in 

 the first examination/ 



In spite of the many lectures and necessary study which 

 these involved, Helmholtz found time to enjoy a splendid per- 

 formance of Euryanthe, and to admire Seydemann's Mephisto- 

 pheles, and Clara Stich as Gretchen in a representation such as 

 he had never before seen of Faust. His time became more and 

 more filled up, for all the free afternoons were struck out on 

 account of the many lectures. Muller's physiology pleased 

 him immensely, and Mitscherlich's zoo-chemistry also interested 

 him, the experimental chemistry being, as he says, ' chock-full, 

 but the least bit tedious/ Link, however, seemed to him to 

 suffer ' from a superabundance of intellect ; after two months' 



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