94 THE PHYLETIC MUSEUM AT JENA 
trations and explanations. The possibility of fulfilling this 
wish first became apparent in 1894, on the occurrence of my 
sixtieth birthday, when my pupils and friends arranged a 
gathering to present me with a marble bust ; the consider- 
able surplus left being appropriated to founding a special 
‘‘Erust Haeckel Institution.’? As my friends left me alto- 
gether free to appropriate this surplus in the manner I 
thought most likely to promote the interests of science, my 
favourite wish seemed as if it might come to pass. Reali- 
zation of that desire, however, first became possible when, 
on the 7th of March, 1907, the celebration of my Doctor’s 
jubilee, a still greater sum, in furtherance of the same 
object, was placed at my service. And so soon as the 
minimum sum) requisite for the building was assured, 
the final plans were adopted, and in July, 1907, the build- 
ing was commenced. The cornerstone was laid on the 28th 
of August, Goethe’s birthday. 
The new Phyletic Museum has approximately the 
extent of the Jena Zoological Institute Its eastern front, 
opposite to the former ‘‘ Neutor,’’ is near to the ‘‘ Gate of 
Paradise,” that is to the entrance of the small idyllic city 
park on the bank of the Saale ; a place that has been the 
peripatetic academy of many thinkers. Near-by will be 
found the Paradise station of the Saale Railway, and 
the city electric road. In front, the venerable lindens of 
Paradise avenue enframe a lovely landscape ; while towards 
the east rise up the artistic tops of the Kernberge, and the 
Hausberges with the ‘‘ Fox-tower,’’ Schiller’s mountain 
‘‘ with the reddish, gleamy summit.’’ 
The ground plot on which the new Museum is built 
belongs to the University. It includes the southerly 
portion of the former Doberein garden ; and an adjoining 
NotTs. (2)— The necessary capital for building construction, 
$25,000, comprised these items: His Highness the Duke of Sax- 
meiningen, $5,000; Prof. Meyer, Leipzig, $2,500; surplus Haeckel 
celebration, $2,500; Zeiss, Jena celebration, $7,500; proceeds of 
Haeckel’s ‘‘ Weltratsel,”’ $2,500. Further items since contributed, 
$7,500, 
