When the Austrian government dismantled the
fortifications about Vienna, a broad street, the Burg-
ring, took its place. Here were established the
Imperial and Royal Art Gallery, Opera House, and
Natural History Museum. Steindachner then became
director of the last-named, though provided with a
wholly inadequate force and very little money for
securing material. He had an excellent lithographic
artist, Edward Konopicky, and a taxidermist, but all
labels he wrote for himself, and he himself paid for
most of his specimens. Through me he bought a good
deal of material secured in my early expeditions, but
before 1910 had reached the limit of possible pur-
chases.

In his devotion to work, he never married. I found

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