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aware of the importance of the great charge and responsibility 
he had undertaken. 
I have only to allude to the opening address of Crown 
Prince Rudolph as Patron of the first International Ornitholo- 
gical Congress in Vienna, on 7th April of the present year, in 
which he pointed out with considerable force the importance and 
value of the study of natural history as pursued in the present 
century, an address of which any scientific man might well be 
proud. 
The Crown Prince had to pass a very severe examination 
before the Emperor in the middle of May, 1870, which he did 
most satisfactorily, and procured Hochstetter the expression of 
the high satisfaction of that Sovereign. Toshow this more fully, 
the Emperor created Hochstetter an Aulic Councillor, a very 
high distinction in Austria; and shortlyafterwards conferred upon 
him a patent of hereditary nobility. 
Towards the end of September Hochstetter left for Hamburg 
to receive officially, as President of the Imperial Geographical 
Society, the officers and men of the second Austrian-Hungarian 
Expedition, which had started more than two years before for 
an exploration of the Arctic regions, in the steamer “ Tegethoff.” 
After discovering Francis Joseph Land, they had been ob- | 
liged to leave the ship, and after a most adventurous journey of 
96 days in open boats, had at last reached Nova Zembla on 
August 24th, where they fortunately met the Russian schooner 
“Nicolai.” This vessel brought them to the northern coast of 
Norway. Hochstetter writes with the greatest delight of the 
successful issue of this memorable voyage, and of meeting again 
the two brave leaders Weyprecht and Payer. | 
At the end of 1874 the Crown Prince ceased to be Hoch- 
stetter’s pupil, but the friendly relations between them continued 
doubtless to the end of the latter’s life. 
My friend, who had never given up his position as Professor 
at the Technical University, could now devote more time to 
teaching ; and, having been elected rector for the year 1875, addi- 
tional work was laid upon him. Nevertheless he managed, even’ 
at that particularly busy time, to get some interesting collections 
together for the Canterbury Museum, showing once more that he 
was always ready to procure for me what I especially wished. 
In fact, in every department of the Canterbury Museum valuable 
specimens abound, obtained through the friendly assistance of 
my departed friend, who under all circumstances always cheer- 
fully went to work for me. 
In the autumn of the same year Hochstetter went to the 
International Congress of Geographers held in Paris, and after- 
wards to the meeting of the German Naturalists at Gratz, where 
he had the enjoyment of meeting many distinguished friends 
from all parts of the world. 
In May, 1876, he was appointed Imperial Intendant (Direc- » 
tor General) of the Imperial Museum, which was to contain 
all the zoological, botanical, mineralogical, geological, and 
