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43 again with the telegraph, and in May, 1835 he undertook a journey to the West of Europe, taking his simplified instrument with him.

In the month of September he attended the meeting of the German Naturalists at Bonn, on the Rhine, where, on the 23rd, he exhibited his telegraph before the Section of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, over which Greorg Wilhelm Muncke, Professor of Natural philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, presided. Muncke was much pleased with Schilling's instrument, and he determined at once to get one for exhibition at his lectures.

I have lately, at Heidelberg, in the Western Main Street (Westliclie Hauptstrasse), opposite the former convent of Dominicans, in the upper story of the house under No. 52, called Ziun Riesen, where, at present, the Cabinet of natural philosophy is located, found in a store-room, belonging to it, the apparatus which Professor Muncke