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well deserved compliment was not paid much sooner to one who, 
by his geological explorations of an English colony, had so 
greatly distinguished himself. This is another proof of the un- 
assuming character of Hochstetter, who, though in constant con- 
tact with eminent English geologists, evidently never complained 
or put himself forward, or this omission would surely have been 
rectified long before. The Royal Geographical Society of London 
had, however, some time before elected him an honorary corres- 
ponding member. 
Before he left in August of the same year (1880) “for the 
Island of Riigen in the Baltic, to try sea-bathing for his nervous 
complaint, which had become so bad that he could scarcely walk, 
he again torwarded several cases for the Technological Museum 
in Christchurch, and continued in many ways to show his never- 
flagging interest in the advancement of the Institution under my 
charge. 
Before reaching the Baltic he visited first the pre-historic 
Exhibition in Berlin with considerable pleasure, and after his 
stay on Riigen he went to Stockholm, where he derived great 
enjoyment from his intercourse with Baron Nordenskiold. On 
his return journey he stayed several days in Copenhagen, always 
bent upon enriching the Museum under his care. 
Though the state of his health had not materially improved, 
he found himself much refreshed after the comparative rest of a 
few months, and now began to use a Swedish gymnastic cure, 
from which he hoped to derive better results than “from electri- 
city or medicine.” 
In the beginning of the year 1881, at least some rooms on the 
first floor of the new Museum building could be used for offices, 
work-rooms, and for placing sample show-cases. The first col- 
lections he appears to have arranged here were the ethnological 
objects from New Zealand, which, as he tells me with pride, 
filled a case about eight feet high and eighteen feet long. The 
work became so arduous that he was at last obliged to resign his 
professorship at the end of July of the same year, and he could 
now devote all his energy to his duties as Director-General of 
the Imperial Museum. 
In the beginning of August he went with the whole of his 
family to Gallenegg in Krain, a most romantic spot, to bathe in 
the tepid springs. This, together with the glorious mountain air, 
improved his general health, without, however, freeing him from 
his nervous complaint. During this visit he superintended also 
extensive excavations on a prehistoric, so called Celtic, burial 
place at Watsch, a few miles distant from Gallenegg, the results 
of which were of remarkable bearing. 
After his return the arrangements for ventilation and heating 
(hot water apparatus) were next to be attended to, but owing to 
various circumstances many months elapsed before this important 
work, for which the estimates reached a sum of £52,000, was 
proceeded with; and poor Hochstetter, feeling in constant pain, 
fretted about all these delays, as if he felt that if the work were 
