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be proceeded with. The cost was estimated at about £30,000, 
and the whole brought renewed care to one who had already his 
hands more than full. However, he found time to make in 
April and May a short journey to Berlin, to be present at the 
fiftieth anniversary of the Geograhical Society of that capital, 
and visited afterwards the principal North German Museums. 
Though on his return, as he says, “he does not know where 
his head stands from trouble and work,” he now took the 
necessary steps, “as a sign of his affection for New Zealand and 
friendship for me,” to get together that magnificent metallurgical 
collection which is one of the great features of the technological 
series in the Canterbury Museum. He not only addressed him- 
self to the principal mining centres in Europe to get the desired 
material, but he also obtained from the different managing 
directors of the Austrian State mines sets of specimens, which it 
is impossible to procure through dealers, and which are thus of 
special value from their undoubted authenticity. 
He still devoted a great deal of time and attention to pre- 
historic researches, superintending excavations in several parts 
of the Austrian Empire, and collecting large series of antiquities, 
many of these of primary importance for tracing the early history 
_ of the different people who one after another had come to inhabit 
that portion of Europe } and in order to continue this work more 
fully, he was at last obliged to give up lecturing for that year. 
Thus for a month he was in Krain, partly directing excavations 
in limestone caves which yielded splendid results, consisting 
principally of skeletons of the extinct cave bear. In the same 
country a number of prehistoric burial places were also examined, 
during which much interesting material was collected. For 
similar purposes he went also to Bohemia and afterwards to Hall- 
statt, in the Austrian Alps, where a number of human skeletons, 
and with them a large number of bronze ornaments, weapons, 
and implements, rewarded his researches. And finally, in Octo- 
ber of the same year, he went to Paris to visit the International 
Exhibition, and to purchase any available specimens required to 
fill up gaps in the Vienna collections. He also was presented, 
to his great satisfaction, by the French Minister of Marine with 
an extensive series of ethnological objects collected in the 
French Colonies. 
The New Museum building gradually advancing to com- 
pletion, Hochstetter began now to calculate with a certain 
degree of probability when he would be able to take charge of it, 
and he was at that time in great hopes that he would be able to 
begin with the arrangement of the collections early in 1883, so 
that about this time everything would have been ready for the 
opening. However, matters did not advance so smoothly and 
quickly as he anticipated, and he was not even able to superin- 
tend personally the transmission of the specimens when in the 
month of June of this year a beginning was at last made. 
Though he says at the beginning of 1879 that his throat 
complaint was now quite chronic, he had to lecture again ; and 
