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New-Zealand government gazette published 

 them, and a special copy was distributed in 

 the colon}- and in England. Afterward, geo- 

 logical maps were added, and lectures and 

 maps appeared at Auckland in 1864, under 

 the title of ' The geology of New Zealand.' 

 Later, Hochstetter published in Vienna, 1866, 

 two quarto volumes, entitled ' Geologie und 

 palaontologie von 

 Neu Seeland,' the 

 paleontology being- 

 worked up by such 

 specialists as lin- 

 ger, Zittel, Suess, 

 Stoliczka, with the 

 assistance of 

 Homes, von Hauer, 

 and Hochstetter 

 himself. Shortly- 

 after his return to 

 Vienna, in 1860, 

 Hochstetter was ap- 

 pointed professor of 

 geology and miner- 

 alogy at the impe- 

 rial polytechnic 

 school. In 1867 he 

 was sent by the 

 Austrian govern- 

 ment to Paris as a 

 commissioner to the 

 International exhi- 

 bition, and in 1874 

 he was assistant di- 

 rector of the Vienna 

 international exhibi- 

 tion. Shortly after 

 this, he was made 



director of the new imperial museum of natural 

 history, with the difficult task of erecting a 

 new building. Notwithstanding illness, which 

 soon attacked him, Hochstetter had the hap- 

 piness of seeing all the collections removed to 

 the new building, and arranged so systemati- 

 cally that the Vienna museum now ranks among 

 the first, if not the first, in the world. From 

 1869 to 1872, Hochstetter was exploring Eu- 

 ropean Turke} 7 , of which he prepared an ex- 



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cellent geological map, with a report. lie 

 afterwards visited the Ural Mountains, de- 

 scribed in his ' Ueber den Ural,' Berlin, 1873. 

 Hochstetter was also a geographer of note, 

 and his ' Die erde ' is justly popular. As 

 vice-president, afterward president, of the geo- 

 graphical society of Vienna, he rendered im- 

 portant services to geography, more especially 



in assisting the ex- 

 pedition to the 

 north pole, which 

 resulted in the dis- 

 covery of Franz - 

 Josef Land, and in 

 his continued aid to 

 Dr. Oscar Lenz, 

 the explorer of 

 western Africa, and 

 the traveller who 

 made the remarka- 

 ble journey from 

 Tangier to Timbuc- 

 too and the Senegal. 

 Finally Hochstet- 

 ter was selected, in 

 1872, by the emper- 

 or of Austria-Hun- 

 gary as tutor in 

 natural history to 

 the crown prince. 



Personally, Fer- 

 dinand von Hoch- 

 stetter was a most 

 attractive man, a 

 very interesting lec- 

 turer, and a power- 

 ful conversational- 

 ist. He married an 

 house in Dobling, 

 Austrian savants. 



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English lady ; and his 



Vienna, was a centre for 



and for all foreigners visiting the capital ol 



the Austrian empire. 



MARRIAGE LAW IN SAVAGERY. 1 



Society is organized for the regulation of 

 conduct, and conduct is regulated b}'law in the 



1 See Certain principles of primitive law (Science* No. 92). 



