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find time to pay New Zealand a visit, his health would certainly 
improve ; but owing tothe heavy responsibilities he had under- 
taken, and his great conscientiousness never to shrink from what 
he considered his duty, he put aside all thoughts of gratifying this 
favourite wish. 
’ He was now obliged to throw up all his honorary appoint- 
ments one after another, as they compelled him to go into town 
at night, the last of which, the presidency of the Imperial Geo- 
graphical Society, he resigned, evidently with deep regret, towards 
the end of the year (1882), when the Society elected him its 
honorary president. I may here mention that Hochstetter since 
his marriage had been living at Oberdobling, a charming spot a 
few miles from Vienna. 
Towards the end of that year he again sent four cases to the 
Canterbury Museum, containing many valuable geological and 
ethnological objects that he had procured for us. 
On the 8th March of the following year (1883) he read a very 
interesting paper to the Vienna Academy of Science on the 
discoveries lately made in the prehistoric, so called, Celtic burial 
places in Krain, from which he drew the conclusion that they 
belonged to an Arian people, who, coming from the far east one 
thousand to two thousand years before the Christian era, had 
first settled in Austria, and then, crossing the Alps, had gone to 
dwell in Italy. He further showed that the oldest Etruscan 
remains can also be traced to this remarkable prehistoric people, 
its civilisation preceding that of the Grecian, Second Etruscan, 
and Roman Periods. . 
A cold-water cure at Kaltenlentgeben, near Vienna, was tried 
in June; and a second visit was made to Gallenegg, in Krain, 
where he stayed five weeks in the autumn with his family to 
bathe in the tepid springs, but unfortunately without the least 
effect, the nervous complaint, now traced to the spine, becoming 
gradually worse. But notwithstanding this state of constant 
pain, Hochstetter never lost his enthusiasm for work, and he 
writes with delight that already twenty of the large oil-paintings 
—some of them twelve feet long and six feet high, and amongst 
them several New Zealand views—for the decoration of the new 
Museum rooms were now ready, and that they were exhibited 
and much admired at the International Electric Exhibition held 
in the autumn of last year in Vienna. 
During his stay in Kaltenlentgeben he had the pleasure of 
hearing of Dr. and Mrs. von Lendenfeld’s successful ascent of 
the Hochstetter Dome in the Southern Alps, in March of last 
year, and he, as usual when New Zealand scenery is concerned, 
was greatly pleased that such a feat had been accomplished by 
two Austrians. He had also taken a warm interest in Mr. 
Green’s ascent of Mount Cook the year before. Whilst at 
Gallenege he had again considerable excavations made at 
Watsch, that locality having previously given such excellent re- 
sults, and once more yielding a great quantity of objects in bronze 
and burnt clay. 
