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ney of three months’ duration, extensive topographical and 
geological surveys were made, reaching from Whaingaroa and 
Mokau on the west coast, to Maketu and Tauranga on the east 
coast, including Tongariro, Ruapehu, and Lakes Taupo, Rotorua, 
Tarawera, and Rotomahana, with their geysers, terraces, and 
other wonderful phenomena. We returned to Auckland in the 
beginning of June, and after paying a visit to the goldfields of 
Coromandel Peninsula, and to the copper mines of Great Barrier 
Island and Kawau, left on July 28th for Nelson, where he re- 
mained till October 2nd, when he started for Sydney in the 
“Prince Alfred.” During his stay in the Province of Nelson he 
visited the goldfields and coal measures of Golden Bay, the Dun 
Mountain copper mines, making also several excursions inland 
and reaching Lake Rotoiti, whence he had a view of the 
high ranges of the central chain, which, to his great regret, he 
was unable to visit. 
Both in Auckland and Nelson the Provincial Governments 
and the public, in order to show their appreciation of his arduous 
labours, made him handsome presentations, which to the end of 
his life he valued most highly, and always showed with pride to 
his New Zealand visitors. 
Hochstetter arrived in Triest in the middle of January, 1860, 
and like the other scientific members of the “ Novara” expedi- 
tion received many distinctions, both from the Emperor of 
Austria and the King of Wurtemberg, as well as from scientific 
bodies. Shortly after his return he was appointed Professor of 
Geology and Mineralogy in the Technical University (Hoch- 
schule) of Vienna, his lectures to begin in September of the same 
year. 
In the meantime he was occupied in working up his New 
Zealand collections and preparing reports on different mining 
concerns, for which he had not found the time before leaving the 
Colony. In June of the same year he went to London with the 
two Maoris who had shipped to Austria with the “ Novara” to 
see them safely on board the “Caduceus,” and to study for 
several months the geological and ethnological collections in the 
British and other English Museums. 
Returning to Vienna, he now began to lecture in September 
of the same year. On April 2nd of the following year (1861) he 
married Georgina Bengough, the daughter of an English gentle- 
man who was director of the Vienna gasworks. Even before 
his marriage Hochstetter suffered considerably from a bronchial 
affection, which, however, never prevented him from teaching, 
although at times he was greatly inconvenienced by it. He also 
began now to get together a large collection of geological and 
mineralogical specimens for teaching purposes, the Technical 
University being of recent origin only. 
As it was impossible for him, whilst lecturing, to find time for 
the publication of the results of his journeys in New Zealand, he 
received for the year 1862 entire leave of absence from teaching, 
and he now devoted all his energies to this congenial task, the 
