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years old, but his hair may be prematurely gray. He 
seems to have his hands very full of business, but he 
received me with cordiality ; took me to the library 
and the cabinet of natural history, which are in the 
same building, told me to amuse myself till one (the 
universal dinner hour), and meet him at the Botanic 
Garden at three, and afterwards spend the evening at 
his house. The cabinets here are in an old, rather in- 
convenient building, once a Jesuits’ college, which now 
contains them all, as well as the library, the lecture- 
rooms of the university, etc., but in a year or so all 
will be removed to very fine buildings the king is 
erecting for their reception. Rxsdptitie the Brazilian 
collections, which are large and good, there is nothing 
worth particular notice in the zodlogical and minera- 
logical cabinets ; they make no great show after that 
of Vienna. The library is immense, this and the one 
at Paris being the two largest in the world; the books 
fill a great number of rooms, none of them magnifi- 
cent but very convenient; the whole is soon to be 
transferred to other quarters. I was introduced to 
one of the librarians, who was at the moment showing 
the curiosities of the collection, very old and rich man- 
eae — the earliest attempts at wood-engraving, 
.»—to a party of English. When he had ibe 
and them I told him he must have been bored quite 
sufficiently for once, and that I would not trouble him 
any further just then, but that I wished to acquire 
some useful information about the plan and arrange- 
ment of the library, rather than to see its curiosities. 
So he fixed upon Friday morning, when he would be 
quite disengaged, and would aly afford me all the 
information I desired. Shortly after dinner I went 
down to the Botanic Garden; found Martius, who, 
