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ethnological collections, and the erection of which on a 
truly magnificent scale had been commenced three years 
previously. It was expected that this grand building, one of 
the greatest ornaments of Vienna, in which all these col- 
lections, now scattered in separate buildings, should be united, 
would be ready in about five years further, or about 1881; but, 
as will be seen in the following pages, my poor friend did not 
live to see it opened to the public. Directors or custodians for 
the several departments had been appointed, with the exception 
of the geological and paleontological, anthropological, and eth- 
nographical divisions, the direction of which he retained for 
himself. 
Notwithstanding that the whole direction and organisation 
was placed in his hands, entailing upon him an enormous amount 
of work, he continued to retain his position as Professor of 
the Technical University up to August, 1881, when at last he 
was relieved by being pensioned, and could now devote his 
undivided attention to the Museum, the grand buildings of which 
were now far advanced and nearly ready for occupation. Hoch- 
stetter had his whole heart and soul in this congenial task, and 
he dwells repeatedly upon the fact that both of us at the different 
ends of the earth try to create institutions which shall combine 
strictly scientific aims with general public interest. 
Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, in an address to the Manchester 
Literary and Philosophical Society, as reported in Mature, Dec- 
ember 7, 1876, speaks of the new Vienna Museum, to contain 
five principal divisions, each with a proper reference library 
attached to it, in the following terms :— 
“With regard to the arrangement of subordinate parts ina 
museum, that which is now being carried out in the Imperial 
Museum at Vienna, under Dr. F. von Hochstetter, seems to me 
the best : to form one lineal series, inorganic objects forming the 
base ; then palzeontological specimens, illustrating the life which 
has been, and leading up to the illustrations of the life which is 
now on the earth—botany, zoology, anatomy, and the like. 
When this is completed the Museum of Vienna will present a 
more perfect and complete history of the knowledge of the 
earth and its inhabitants than has as yet been presented.” 
In the summer and autumn of the same year (1876) Hoch- 
stetter made some journeys in Belgium, Holland, Denmark, 
and Northern Germany, in the interest of the Imperial Museum. 
In Brussels, where he went at the invitation of the King of the 
Belgians to a meeting of the Presidents of Geographical Societies 
and eminent African travellers, to discuss systematic African 
exploration, he was the guest of the King, who treated him 
with marked respect. 
In January, 1877, Hochstetter was at last able to send com- 
plete sets of the publications of the “ Novara” expedition to 
different institutions in New Zealand, so that nearly seventeen 
years had been necessary for its completion. However, consider- 
ing the enormous amount of matter to be worked out by so 
