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sent me these publications and some others of his, together with 
an important work by an eminent Austrian geologist, through a 
German physician, who had requested Hochstetter to give him 
an introduction to me, intending to settle in New Zealand. . 
However, this person never made his appearance, nor was the 
parcel of books ever forwarded to me. When my friend became 
aware that I had given up the parcel of books as lost, he scarcely 
alluded to my not having received his own publications, but be- 
wailed the fact that I had been deprived of the excellent work 
of his friend and colleague Von Mojsisovics. I ought here to 
mention that Hochstetter was decorated with the Medjiedjie 
order by the Sultan, for his Turkish geological surveys. 
As President of the Imperial Geographical Society he was of 
course one of the foremost promoters of the first Austrian North 
Polar Expedition, and hailed with great delight the return of 
Payer and Laube, both parties having made important discoveries 
on the east coast of Greenland. Lieutenant Payer on board the 
“ Germania” returned safely to Bremerhafen ; while Dr. Laube 
with his party, after the loss of the “ Hansa,” travelled on a drift- 
ing icefield to the southern point of Greenland, where they were 
rescued. 
In the beginning of May, 1871, Hochstetter lost his eldest 
daughter, Julia, ten years of age; and this loss was long and 
deeply felt by him, though, as he says, the enormous amount of 
work he had to get through was now of some comfort to him. 
He still continued preparing for publication his researches on the 
gseology of Eastern Turkey, and also began a_ handbook of 
ceology for the use of Grammar and “ Real” Schools, which was 
published towards the end of that year in Prague, a second 
edition appearing in 1875. It also formed part of a General 
Geography (Allgemeine Erdkunde), for which Dr. J. Hann wrote 
the geographical and meteorological portions, and Dr. A. Pokorney 
the biology ;—an excellent work which has had several editions, 
and fully deserves the high estimation it is held in. At that 
time he published an Atlas of 24 Geological Pictorial Views, 
with letterpress, which were also most favourably received. In 
the autumn of the same year (1871) he tried the thermal springs 
of Carlsbad for his throat complaint, but again in vain; and he 
writes now as if he had given up all hope of getting rid of it, 
though it interfered much with his public duties. 
After having made a short excursion into the Alps, he returned 
to Vienna, and continued to work with the utmost zeal to get the 
necessary funds together for a second Arctic Polar Expedition, 
intended to start as soon as possible, for which the sum of 
£20,000 was required. In February, 1872, a steamer, the 
“ Tegethoff,’ was already secured, only 48000 more being wanted, 
and his whole energy being taxed to the utmost before that sum — 
was obtained. Further work was now put on his willing shoulders, 
as member of the Imperial Commission for the International 
Exhibition, to be held in Vienna in 1873; and his first care was 
to urge upon his friends in New Zealand, with whom he was in 
