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geological survey of the country. The major excursion that followed through the Waikato, Waipa,
Kawhia, Wanganui, Taupo and Rotorua was undertaken by the two Germans while accompanied
by Captain George Drummond Hay, who was fluent in Maori, the German draughtsman Augustus
Carl Ferdinand Koch and photographer Bruno Lancel Hamel, in addition to two servants, a cook
and fifteen Maori porters. His stay was then lengthened to a total of nine months after Hochstetter
and Haast were invited by the Nelson Provincial Council to report on the mineral deposits in the
province, in particular Dun Mountain, 8 after briefly stopping at New Plymouth and Wellington
along the way. 9
Although Hochstetter and Haast eventually parted company on 2 October 1859 (when the
former left for Sydney on the Prince Alfred), 10 their friendship remained, and they kept up
correspondence until Hochstetter’s death. Shortly after his return to Trieste on 9 January 1860,
Hochstetter received a knighthood from Württemberg, and was offered the position of Professor
of Mineralogy and Geology at the Imperial Royal Polytechnic Institute in Vienna, where he
taught until 1881. He was then appointed Vice-President of the Imperial Royal Geographical
Society in 1862 before becoming President in November 1866, a position he held until 1882,
during which time he was additionally involved in placing contributions from New Zealand in the
world exhibitions in Paris and Vienna. In 1876 he also became Superintendent of the Natural
History Museum in Vienna, and received a hereditary knighthood from the Austrian Emperor in
1884. This was followed soon afterwards by his death in Oberdöbling on 18 July from diabetes
and a presumed affliction of the spinal cord. 11 Meanwhile Haast was asked to stay on by the
Nelson Provincial Government to make further geological surveys in the province, and was
8 See Charles A. Fleming, “Dr Hochstetter in Nelson (Extracts from the Diary of Sir David Monro, 1813-1817
[sic])”, in: New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics (Hochstetter Centenary Issue) 2:5 Nov (1959): 954-63.
9 See also Ferdinand von Hochstetter, “Lecture on the Geology of the Province of Auckland, New Zealand”, in: The
New Zealand Gazette 23 14 July (1859): 162-74; Ferdinand von Hochstetter, “Lecture on the Geology of the
Province of Nelson”, in: The New Zealand Gazette 39 6 Dec (1859): 269-81.
10 See Michael Organ, “‘Österreich in Australien’: Ferdinand von Hochstetter and the Austrian Novara Scientific
Expedition 1858-9”, in: Historical Records of Australian Science 12:1 June (1998): 1-13.
11 See, for example, Walter Carlé, “Ferdinand Ritter von Hochstetter, ein berühmte Geologe des letzten Jahrhunderts
aus schwäbischem Stamm”, in: Jahresheft der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg 135 (1980): 145-66;
Julius von Haast, “In Memoriam: Ferdinand Ritter von Hochstetter”, in: NZJS 2:5 Sept (1884): 202-20; Franz Heger,
Ferdinand von Hochstetter. Wien: Hölzel, 1884; Nolden, German and Austrian Naturalists, 46-66; Charles A.
Fleming, “Hochstetter, Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand von 1829 – 1884: Geologist, writer”, in: DNZB 1, 199f.; Les
Kermode, “Ferdinand von Hochstetter”, in: Welt für sich, 203-14; Augustin Krämer, “Ferdinand von Hochstetter:
Geologe, Erforscher Neuseelands, Intendant des k. k. Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums zu Wien 1829-1884”, in:
Schwäbische Lebensbilder. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1941, 229-41; Gerhard Holzer, Ferdinand Hochstetter
insbesondere als Neuseelandforscher. MA Thesis. University of Vienna, 1984; F. Freiherr von Andrian, “Ferdinand
von Hochstetter”, in: Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien [=MAGW] 14 (1884): 77-82; Henze,
“Hochstetter, Ferdinand von”, in: EEEE 2, 590-95.
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