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went with me to the famous Mineralogical Cabinet, 
the finest in the world. A most splendid affair it is. 
It occupies a suite of quite ordinary rooms, but is 
excellently arranged and shows to great advantage. 
Here are all the fine gems, diamonds, emeralds, topaz, 
and all sorts of precious stones, both polished and 
natural. I saw also the bouquet of precious stones 
made for Maria Theresa, a most brilliant affair. The 
collection of aerolites is unique. I intend to visit it 
again on Saturday. I obtained some useful informa- 
tion here as to the mode of constructing the shelves, 
etc., in a mineralogical cabinet; their plan here is the 
best I have seen. If I knew what I now do, I could 
have given a plan for the construction of the cabi- 
nets at the Lyceum infinitely better than the present. 
Returning to the Botanical Gallery I occupied myself 
in selecting specimens for myself from Rugel’s New 
Holland collections. Endlicher offers me these and 
other plants, as many as I like. He also offered to 
send to Hamburg for me a copy of the “ Icono- 
graphia Generum Plantarum,” the “ Annals of the Vi- 
enna Museum,” and some other of his works. After 
dinner, finding nothing else to do for a few moments, i 
went into a bookseller’s, — the publisher of Endlicher’s 
“Genera Plantarum,” —to look up some reports on 
education, ete. I asked also for botanical works ; and 
after offering me several things which I did not want, 
they brought out, as a great rarity, our own “ Flora,” 
which I told them I did not want at all. At six 
o'clock, Endlicher called upon me to take me to the 
Botanic Garden of the university, under the care of 
Baron Jacquin, who is professor, at the same time, of 
both botany and chemistry in the university, and 
scarcely lectures on either. He introduced me to the 
