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£7. 76.) TO J. D. HOOKER. 795 
than this in 1881, to find snow down even to foothills 
of the Jura and on Mont Saléve; it came two days 
ago, and the air, though clear,is very chilly, which is 
not to my liking. 
Vienna was much better, excepting our last day, 
which had a cold and high wind, and our night jour- 
ney to Munich was cold and comfortless, in spite of 
the best appliances. 
I have nothing new to tell you of Vienna, where 
we made out our full week, quite enjoyingly. 
Besides the normal sight-seeing, and drives around 
this truly magnificent city, we went one afternoon to 
the astronomical observatory out at Wahring ( Weiss 
and wife being old acquaintances), and next day they 
went with us to the Prater. Korner and daughter took 
us to Schénbrunn. I went with these to a meeting of 
the Academy of Sciences ; had a good turn around the 
new and immense, but mostly yet unarranged, Natural 
History Museum with Hauer, the director, and Stein- 
dachner, the zodlogical curator; had a look at the 
Hofherbarium on the upper floor, now under charge 
of a young man, Beck (and looked up some of 
Haenke’s things there). How different from forty- 
eight years ago, when Endlicher was curator, Fenzl, 
assistant, and the former took me out to the Botanic 
Garden to callon old Jacquin, ete. Steindachner, who 
was with Agassiz fora year or two at Cambridge, 
would have us come to his house for our last even- 
ing; Siiss! and frau to meet us, — charming couple ; 
would have been lots more, but we cut it short; had a 
jolly, pleasant evening. Korner was prevented from 
coming. He has been asked to take Eichler’s? place 
1 Eduard Siiss ; professor of paleontology at Vien 
2 A. W. Eichler, 1839-1887 ; succeeded igcasiee: Bees at Berlin. 
