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only two years afterwards (1856) Chief Geologist for the section 
Bohemia. It was soon perceived that in his scientific reports he 
bad struck out a new path, and that they combined deep scien- 
tific research with sterling practical value, while his vivid 
descriptions of the mountain tract named Boehmer Wald (the 
Bohemian forest), still clothed in many parts with virgin forest, 
abounded in poetical originality. 
He also lectured the same year, during the winter months, as 
“ Privat-docent” at the Vienna University, on geology. In the 
beginning of 1857 he was selected to accompany as geologist the 
“Novara” Expedition round the world, and left Triest with it on 
the 30th of April of the same year. After visiting Madeira, the 
Cape.of Good Hope, St. Paul, Ceylon, the Nicobars, Java, Lucon, 
China, and Sydney, the “ Novara” arrived in Auckland on Dec- 
ember 22, 1858. 
Some coal seams having been discovered shortly before near 
that city, the Government requested Hochstetter to examine 
them, which he did with his usual carefulness and conscientious- 
ness. A week afterwards he presented his report to the Govern- 
ment, who were so impressed with its value that through the 
Governor a request was made to the commodore of the “ Novara” 
to allow Hochstetter to leave the ship and remain for some eight 
months longer in the Colony as the guest of the country, in 
order that he might examine its geology, physical geography, 
and natural history. This request was after some hesitation 
granted, and the “ Novara” left New Zealand on January 8th, 
1859, for Tahiti, without Hochstetter. 
I had arrived in Auckland a day before the “ Novara.” We 
soon met, understood each other, and gradually we became linked 
together by the warmest friendship, never. clouded for a single 
moment, and only severed by death. I cannot help observing 
here that Hochstetter’s desire to acknowledge the merits of other 
scientific men, and his total want of envy or jealousy, was so 
great, that though his letters to me contain in many instances 
valuable contributions to the history of geology and the cognate 
sciences for the last twenty-five years, he was so unassuming as 
to his own work that he seldom spoke of it, and then only passed 
it over with a few remarks, while he fully dilated upon the work. 
of others with sincere praise. Whenever I wanted more details 
about his own doings, I had to question him repeatedly before I 
could get the desired information. 
Invited by the New Zealand Government, at the express 
desire of Mochstetter, I accompanied him on all his journeys in 
New Zealand, helping him whenever I could to the best of my 
ability ; and thus I had ample opportunity of recognising all the 
eminent qualities of his noble character and great intellectual 
powers. 
During the first two months of his stay in New Zealand 
_Hochstetter examined principally the geological formations near 
Auckland ; we then left on March 6th for the Waikato and the 
southern portions of the Auckland Province. During this jour- 
