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of 500 copies. However, by some misunderstanding, the vote 
was not available at the time, and only at the end of 1866 did 
Hochstetter receive the official communication that the above- 
named sum had been placed at the disposal of the English 
agent to receive the said 500 copies. 
And, though I anticipate events, I may here add that he now 
went to work with renewed ardour, leaving out several chapters 
as of not sufficient interest to the colonists, re-writing others, and 
making full use of the publications of his successors in New 
Zealand, of which those of Dr. Hector and my own were most 
extensively quoted. 
He was of course greatly worried about the whole affair, as 
in the meantime he had given a personal guarantee to Baron 
Cotta; and in one of his letters at the beginning of 1866, ad- 
dressed to me, he cannot help exclaiming, “I have now worked 
for seven years for New Zealand, and do not know when the 
troubles about the English edition will come to an end. The 
large amount of work done has brought me a great deal of 
scientific distinction, but I assure thee materially has yielded me 
very little fruit. However, I do not mind that. I have done 
my duty and redeemed my word, so I feel quite satisfied, be- 
cause I know my friends in the Colony will also have the same 
impression.” 
In the same year Hochstetter had 260 students in mineralogy 
and 80 in geology, and though he suffered much from the 
bronchial affection he was subject to, he continued to teach with 
his usual enthusiasm and thoroughness. In the following year 
(1867) he was elected President of the Imperial Geographical 
Society of Vienna, a position he held till the state of his health 
in 1882 compelled him to resign that honourable office. As his 
salary was small, and his family gradually increasing, he now 
began the preparation of geological and mineralogical text-books 
for higher schools, which, soon after their appearance, were intro- 
duced in many parts of the Austrian Empire, and raised his 
income to someextent. These books proved that the experience 
he had gained in teaching was now used to the best advantage. 
At the beginning of the same year the second part of Hoch- 
stetter’s share in the “ Novara” publications appeared, containing 
his geological observations at the Cape of Good Hope, St. Paul, 
the Nicobars, Java, and some other points touched by the 
Austrian man-cf-war. This volume is also a valuable contri- 
bution to the knowledge of the countries visited, some of them 
never having been geologically examined before. In April 
Hochstetter went to Paris on behalf of the Austrian Government, 
to report upon the metallurgical products in the International 
Exhibition. Every moment he could spare from teaching during 
the early part of that year (1867) was devoted to the Eng- 
lish edition of his “Neu Seeland,” to which he continued to add 
new material, or even to re-write some portions—often in the last 
moment before going to press—to bring up the book to the 
latest date. At last, in the end of September, this English 
