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edition, dedicated by permision to the Queen, was issued, 500 
copies being forwarded to the New Zealand agent in London, 
while 700 copies more were either sold in Germany or were sent 
to England and North America. 
Thus for more than eight years had Hochstetter been occu- 
pied with working up his New Zealand researches, and he writes 
joyfully that at last his task is accomplished so far, though, as he 
says, “his heart is still in that far away beautiful country over 
the sea, where he has spent the nine happiest months of his life.” 
His throat complaint gradually getting worse, he went, in 
May, 1868, to Tiibingen to consult Professor Bruns, celebrated 
as a specialist in that line, and after having been under his care 
for some time some improvement took place, so that during the 
long vacation in the late summer and early autumn months, he 
could travel in the Bavarian and Eastern Alps, and explore the 
Tatra mountains (High Carpathians). In October of the same 
year he published a small work on crystallography, principally 
for the use of his students. It proved a great success, and 
is distinguished by its clearness and terseness. A few months 
afterwards he published an interesting account of the great 
earthquake and sea wave as experienced shortly before in South 
America, New Zealand, and Australia, with a calculation of the 
depth of the Pacific as deduced from the known velocity of the 
waves across that ocean. 
His throat in the spring of the following year (1869) had now 
become so bad that, judging from his letters, he appears to have 
felt very wretched and downhearted. However, shortly after- 
wards he writes more hopefully, having received leave of absence 
for several months in order that he might act as Consulting 
Geologist to the Directors of the Turkish Great Railway Com- 
pany, about to begin operations, who were very anxious to 
secure his co-operation. In June, 1869, he started from Vienna 
with a considerable staff, and after visiting Constantinople he 
went by Adrianople, Philipopolis, Sofia, Wranga, and Nisih, to 
Belgrad, making from these principal starting points or head- 
quartets extensive geological excursions in all directions, 
During the whole journey, made mostly on horseback, his 
throat never troubled him, but as soon as he returned in the 
middle of October to Vienna the old evil came back with 
renewed force. For the next twelve months, besides giving his 
lectures and attending to his usual official duties, he worked most 
assiduously to bring out the results of his Turkish journey, and 
published them partly in the Proceedings of the Imperial Geo- 
graphical Society of Vienna, partly in the Year-book of the 
Imperial Geological State Institute, and in Petermann’s Geo- 
graphische Mittheilungen. ‘These researches brought him ample 
recognition for his careful and conscientious work, through which 
new light was thrown upon some difficult points in the Geology 
of Turkey. 
In connection with these publications I may here add a trait 
demonstrating once more Hochstetter’s unselfish character. He 
