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He returned to his duties at Breslau, where he spent several happy 

 years, until the unfortunate events of 1817 and the excesses of 

 some of the Burschenschafts again caused troubles in his happy 

 circle. Raumer had ever taken a Kvely interest in the develop- 

 ment of young men, and had encouraged the use of gymnastics, or 

 *' Turnen ;" and as some of the excesses of the times were con- 

 nected with the gymnastic societies, Karl v. Haumer was most un- 

 justly looked upon with suspicion even by some of his most intimate 

 friends. 



This led him to seek another appointment, and in 1819 he was 

 named Professor of Mineralogy at the University of Halle. He had 

 now completed his most important geological work, ' The Mountains 

 of Lower Silesia, of the County Glatz, of part of Bohemia and Ober- 

 lausitz, geologically represented.' The merits of this work have been 

 fully recognized by ail subsequent competent observers. He remained 

 at Halle until 1823, but even here his position was not altogether 

 satisfactory. This was the period of the reactionary persecution of 

 the so-called demagogic tendencies of the students of the German 

 Universities. Much as Raumer had encouraged the development of 

 youthful energies, no one was more opposed than he was to their 

 excesses ; and it grieved him to see what was, in fact, only occasional 

 excrescences of the new growth looked upon as the main object of 

 the new movement. But his protection of the students was of no 

 avail, and he himself was looked upon with suspicion ; this deter- 

 mined him to leave Halle, and for a time he undertook the manage- 

 ment of a private school at Niirnberg. Here he was again disap- 

 pointed; circumstances over which he had no control led to the 

 breaking up of the institution in 1826, and Raumer again found 

 himself without a post. But in the following year Schubert's re- 

 moval to Munich opened the way to his appointment at the Uni- 

 versity of Erlangen, where he passed a happy and honourable exist- 

 ence for the remainder of his life. His influence over the students 

 was great, and amongst his colleagues were many who had been his 

 pupils in former years. Here he published his ' Manual of Universal 

 Geography ' (' Lehrbuch der allgemeinen Geographic '), so highly 

 prized by Alexander v. Humboldt ; his ' Palaestina,' no less highly 

 spoken of by Karl Ritter ; and his ' History of Psedagogik (or science 

 of education) from the restoration of Classical Studies,' a work of 

 universal estimation. His principal duties at Erlangen were to 

 lecture on natural history and mineralogy, for the latter of which 

 he formed an excellent collection. He retained his faculties, both of 

 body and mind, almost to the last moment of his life, and died on 

 the 2nd of June, 1865, beloved and regretted by all who knew him. 



Having as yet failed in obtaining any obituary notice respecting 

 the other Foreign Members whom we have lost, I can here only 

 mention their names : — Charles v. Oeynhausen of Westphalia, who 

 will be well remembered by many of our older geologists as having 

 visited this country upwards of thirty-five years ago, when he explored 

 the highlands of Scotland and the Isle of Sky under the guidance of 



