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not brought to a speedy termination he would not be able to 
proceed with the final arrangement of the new Museum, to which 
he had devoted so much careful and anxious thought. 
On the 12th of December of thesameyearthe Imperial Geogra- 
phical Society of Vienna, under the presidency ofthe Crown Prince 
Rudolph, celebrated the 25th anniversary of its foundation, which 
was in many respects a festival in honour of Hochstetter, who had 
then been its president for fourteen years. The members of the 
Society had his bust, life-size, executed in white marble by Victor 
Tilgner, an excellent Austrian sculptor, and placed it on that day in 
their great hall.* At theunveiling of the bust many of the most 
eminent men of the Austrian Empire were present to do honour 
to the man who, from his general scientific attainments and great 
merits for the advancement of the Society, was considered 
worthy of such high distinction. The address that he delivered 
as President on that day is in every respect a model, in which 
thorough knowledge of the subject treated, and sincere desire to 
acknowledgethe merit of others, areharmoniously blended together. 
A further step was now being made in selecting the subjects 
of large appropriate oil paintings to be placed in each room of 
the new Museum buildings. There was room for one hundred 
and seven pictures on each floor, all of them to be six feet high 
and from three to thirteen feet long, 
Hochstetter’s ‘first care seems to have been that New Zealand 
should be properly represented, so in April (1882) the following 
subjects had already been selected :—The Francis Joseph Glacier, 
Rotomahana, the Southern Alps as seen from the West Coast 
(from a sketch of mine), and a Maori Pah, for one of the ethno- 
logical rooms ; and he was very anxious to get as much material 
from me, principally good foreground studies, as I could procure 
for him. Since then the subjects for two more New Zealand 
views have been chosen by him. 
In May of the same year Hochstetter went to Wilhelmsbad, 
near Cannstadt, to go through an electric cure. He stayed there 
five weeks, but unfortunately without the least effect; on the 
contrary, the state of his health grew worse, so he gave it up at 
last and returned to Vienna, much disheartened, and now con- 
vinced that nothing would help him to regain his health. After 
his return he continued to work with his usual ardour, in order 
to prepare as far as possible everything for exhibition in the 
new Museum, trying to fill up any conspicuous gaps in the dif- 
ferent departments, and amongst other things he wrote to me re- 
peatedly to procure him a greenstone mere, which he had never 
been able to obtain before, as well as the rude appliances used 
by the Maoris for cutting nephrite. 
With the exception of a journey into Styria during a few 
weeks in July, he did not leave Vienna during that year (1882), 
as travelling had become very painful to him. At that time, as 
for some years previously, he often thought that if he could only 
* A fine copy of this bust has been placed in the Technological Hall of the 
Canterbury Museum, 
