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more or less regular communication, to exert themselves that 
the distant islands he cherished so much should be well represen- 
ted. At that time he had just received the third volume of the 
Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, a publication which 
he always expected with the greatest impatience, and he writes 
full of pride that he is connected with a country so far distant 
from his own fatherland which, “in so short a time after its 
existence can bring forth such valuable contributions to science.” 
In August, 1872, he started again on a longer tour to the 
Ural and Eastern Siberia, this time as consulting geologist to a 
large mining association ; returning to Vienna after a harassing 
and arduous journey of seventy days, and feeling this time in very 
poor health. 
But now a most honourable distinction awaited him, the 
Emperor of Austria appointing him scientific lecturer to Crown 
Prince Rudolph, the lectures to begin in November, 1872. If 
anything were necessary to show in what high estimation 
Hochstetter was held in the country of his adoption, the fact 
that a Roman-catholic sovereign entrusted the scientific education 
of his son and heir to a protestant with well-known liberal 
principles, ought to be conclusive. It may here be stated that 
during. nore than two years, during which these lectures continued, 
he acquitted himself so -honourably of this task, that the Crown 
Prince to the end of Hochstetter’s life looked upon him with 
respect and high regard, and that the Emperor himself showed 
by the great distinctions and appointments he conferred upon 
him that he had fulfilled his duties to the entire satisfaction of 
the latter. 
Hochstetter continued to urge upon Dr. Featherstone, then our 
agent-general in London, the necessity for obtaining as good repre- 
sentations of New Zealand as possiblefor the Vienna Exhibition, 
assuring him and other New Zealand friends that “he would cheer- 
fully work and toil for that beloved country to the end of his 
days.” As the New Zealand exhibits arrived very late, Hochstetter 
worked day and night to get them ready; the more so as the 
three Moa skeletons, sent by the Canterbury Museum, and a 
large collection of bird skins had first to be articulated and 
mounted. After five weeks’ incessant labour, with five assistants, 
the whole was at last, by the end of June, ready to be placed in 
position, nearly two months after the opening of the exhibition 
After having finished this arduous task, he left for a longer jour- 
ney into the Austrian Alps, with the Crown Prince Rudolph, 
now fifteen years of age, and returned only in the end of Sep- 
tember, after having spent a delightful time at Ischl, in Upper 
Austria. © 
The love of nature so strongly developed, the interest in all 
scientific pursuits always exhibited by the highly-gifted Crown 
Prince of Austria, who has since earned a high and well-deserved 
reputation as an able ornithologist, may in a great measure be 
traced to the teachings of an enthusiastic, pure-minded, and _re- 
markably well-informed man like Hochstetter, who was well 
