The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-14

geognostlc journeys through Tyrol,
Lombardy and Switzerland. Stimula-
ted by Galvani's discoveries in galvan-
ism and electricity, he compiled a work
on the excited muscular and nerve fiber,
and speculations on the chemical pro
c OF animal and veget bic life. He
also famiiiarized himself with practical
tronomy. Upon the event of the death
OF his mother he began to make arrange
ments ior his long contemplated expedi-
ton into the tropical regions of the new
world, and after having studied anato-
my, he spent the winter of 1877 at Saltz.
burg and Berchtesbaden, occupied with
meteorological observations. While So
engaged he accepted an invitation of
Lord Bristol to accompany him on an
excursion to Upper Egypt, and went to
Paris to purchase the necessary instru-
ments, bat upon Lord Bristol's arrest,
for political reasons, he was obliged to
abandon that trip. He remained in
Paris, where he was cordially received
by, and became intimately acquainted
with, the most distinguished savonsand
scholars, ameng whom was his future
companion, the young botanist, Bon
pland. Having received different invi-
tations to. join scientific expeditions,
which, for some reason or another, did
not sail, he became disappointed and
concluded to spend the winter in Spain,
and, making botanical, astronomical
and magnetic observations, he passed
leisurely through Spain and reached
Madrid, in company with Bonpland. in
February, 1893. Through his patron,
Don Mariana Louis de Urguijo, then
first Secretary of State, he was received
with distinguished favor at the court
of Spain. and all the Spanish posses
sions in America and the East Indies
were opened to him. He received pass
ports from the Secretary of State and
from tho Council of the Indies and en-
barked with Bonpland, on the 9th of
June, 1893. They reached Teneritfe,
June 10Th, where they ascended the cell
ebrated peak of Teneriffe TO make OBJ
servations on the natural features of
the Island, and reached Venezuela July
l6, 1909. His travels in South and Con-
tral America were very extensive and
full of instruction. He, SO to say,
opened one of the richest and most in
teresting parts of the earth, and furn-
ished the FIRST positive knowledge of
prominent facts i'll the geography, geOl-
ogy, and resources of that country. His
travels led him through the Venezuelan
provinces TO the OrinOCo, Rio Negro and
Cassiquiare, G. which he followed TO An
gostura, proceeding thence to Cumana.
He, from thence, sailed 20 Cuba, whcqCe
he embarked for Panama and the nigh
plateau of BOgota. la September, loJl,
he started south from Bogota 10 Quito
over the CorIiIlcraS. On June %, l-O2,
he reached the unprecedented altitude
of 1906 feet, IN attempting TO reach
the summit or the ChlmbcrdZo, which
he would certainly have reached had
not deep crevasSe made further ad-
vance impossible. Over the pass of the
Andes he descended into the vale of the
upper Amazon, and, traverSug the
plateau of Caxamarca, he reached the
western drclivlty of the Peruvian Au-
des. Reaching the coast at TruXillo he
traversed Peru and Lima, Embarking
in December, 1902, the party consisting
Of Humboldt, BonpIaud and MOutaiar,
a young Frenchman who had joined
them at Quito, reached Acapulco, in
Mexico, March %, 1903. They explored
the whole of Mexico, spending somo
time at the City of Mexico, and made
tho first profile of an entire country
from barometrical observations. Ia
March, lSO4, Humboldt sailed again to
Havana, where he completed his mate
81 r,r ,,nlitipnl Ia, 81, "A
Of Cuba. From there he embarked with
and Montafar for Philadelphia
and Washington, where they met with
A cordial reception from President JEFF
ferson, and, leaving the New
World, they landed at Bordeaux
August 3, l5O4, after a five years
in America, having gained
a larger store of observations and col
lections in all the departments of lat
Il, Il science than all previous travellers
together. In Paris he collected and ar
ranged his immense stOck k of materials
and manuscripts, and experimental
with Gay LussaC on the chemical ele-
ments of the atmosphere. In NOvem-
Der, 1905, he reached Berlin, after an alb
sence of nine years. From there he was
sent to accompany Prince William of
Prussia to the Emperor Napoleon on a
mission The unsettled condi-
tion of Germany making it difficult to
publish any large works ofscience there,
he received the permission from the King
of Prussia to publish his work in Paris,
from where he edited his Travels into
the Equinoxial Regions of the New
World" during the years of l@0y TO -.
In the year 1910 he was offered the Office
OF Director OF Educational Affairs in
Prussia, one of the highest positions at
the court Of that State, but he declined
il, preferring his independence. Intend
iuga trip to the Himalaya regions, he
studied the Persian language. A con.
expedition 10 the highlands
of Thibet was abandoned on ac-
count of tho war between France
and Russia. During the restorG-
tion of political affairs in Europe
in 1914 and 1877 he accompanied the
King of Prussia TO London, Aux la
Chapelle, Vienna, Rome and Naples
Accompanied by Ehrenberg and Gustav
Rose, he undertook, under the patron
age of the Gar Nicholas, an expedition
to Northern Asia, in l529. He gave the
first impulse TO the establishment Of a
series of magnetic aud meteorological
stations through Western Europe and
Asia from st. Petersburg to Pekin, to
extend the knowledge of tellaric mag
netism, which example was initiated
by the establishment of similar iDstitu-
tions by England on the Southern Hem
isphere, and which system is now estab-
lished throughout the civilized world.
The political conyulsons of the year
1880 shaped Humholdt's activity for
some time differently, without disturb
ing his scientific studies. He went with
royal commissions to Warsaw, TOeplitz
aud Paris, conveying the Prussian re-
coguiton TO Louis PHILIPPE upon