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moting the aims of the Executive Committee. The number of the 

 subscribers is 821, and the amount 1,405 florins (about £140 10s.) 

 which have sufficed to pay the expenses (including purcliase of land, 

 accessory work, and secondary expenses). Owing to M. Ehrlich's 

 indefatigable exertions, and the co-operation of several notable persons 

 of the neighbourhood, the monument was completely finished during 

 the summer of 1857. 



The monumental block, sixteen feet high and 155 feet in circum- 

 ference at its basis, has a pyramidal form. It lies at the mouth of a 

 valley called Bochgrabon," on the flattened top of a gently sloping 

 hill. The side facing the valley has been cut into a plane, polished, 

 and provided with an inscription in Latin uncials, engraved one inch 

 deep, and lined with black colour. The letters of the name are one 

 foot high, and are gilt. The German inscription is thus trans- 

 lated : — 



" DEVOTED 

 TO THE MEMORY OF 

 LEOPOLD VON BUCH, 

 IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE RESOLUTION 

 ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 20tH, 1856, 

 BY THE XXII MEETING OF GERMAN NATURALISTS 



AND PHYSICIANS AT VIENNA, 

 WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF NUMEROUS FRIENDS 

 OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES 

 IN GERMANY, BELGIUM, FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND ITALY." 



Beneath this inscription are engraved the Miner's emblems : two 

 hammers lying across each other. 



At the right of the monument stands a young and vigorous oak ; 

 young fir-trees have rooted themselves behind the block and on its 

 eastern declivity ; before the monument stands a clump of Rhodo- 

 dendrons. Other blocks, of less dimensions, and the larger fragments 

 resulting from the adaptation of the main block to its present destina- 

 tion, are scattered around it for ornamental purposes, or have been con- 

 verted into resting places. The access has been made easy by walks, 

 plantations have been made all around, and the whole is closed by a 

 hedge of hawthorn and other indigenous shrubs. The locality where 

 the monument is placed offers not only most picturesque scenery and 

 prospects of uncommon beauty, but it is also highly interesting on ac- 

 count of its remarkable and diversified geological structure ; and the 

 proximity of the magnificent Abbey of Kremsmiinstere, and the neigh- 

 bourhood of important mining and metallurgical establishments. 



