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together under his direction. Amongst its trea- 

 sures are, besides Haeckel's corals and the like, 

 the outcome of the travels of Semon and Kiiken- 

 thal in Australia and New Guinea — lands whose 

 very outline could barely be traced in the mist 

 when Schiller was a professor at Jena. At the 

 entrance there are two stuffed orangs, our distant 

 cousins. One wall of the lecture-hall is covered 

 with huge charts depicting the genealogical tree of 

 life, as it is drawn up by Haeckel. With what 

 eyes Schiller would have devoured them ! Yet 

 classic traits are not wanting. From Haeckel's 

 fine study in the Institute the eye falls on the 

 Hausberg, ^* the mountain-top from which the red 

 rays stream." It is the room in which the deep- 

 sea radiolaria of the Challenger Expedition were 

 studied, a zoological campaign in depths of the 

 ocean that were stranger to Schiller's days than 

 the surface of the moon is to us. Behind this 

 Goethe-Schiller seat at the observatory there is a 

 natural depression full of willows that reminds us 

 of the time when all was country here. But just 

 beyond it is a modern street — '^ Ernst Haeckel 

 Street," as it was named, in honour of him, on the 

 occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Close to it is 

 the villa where he has lived for many years with 

 his devoted family, full of wonderful reminiscences 

 (oil-paintings and water-colours from his own 

 hand) of his many travels. In Schiller's day a 

 voyage to Ceylon would have been a life's work. 

 To-day it is an episode in an infinitely richer and 

 broader life. On the stone seat now we see the 



