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THE death is announced of Baron Charles Hügel, well known as a scientific explorer and a cultivated man of letters. He was born 25th April, 1796, and, after completing his education at Heidelberg, was for some time engaged in the wars in the early part of this century between Prussia and France, and in 1814 he took part in the triumphal entry into Paris. In 1824 he relinquished military pursuits, and returning to Vienna, entered with great earnestness into the study of Natural Science, for which he had always shown a decided taste. For many years he studied assiduously, preparing himself for an expedition he had planned round the world. In 1831, on the 2nd of May, he set sail from Toulon, and was away six years. His ship was fitted out with every appliance for a scientific voyage, and in all the various localities he visited in Asia, Africa, and the then unknown field of Australia, he amassed large and valuable collections. These were, on his return, purchased by the Austrian Government, and to them the Vienna Museum owes its great importance, especially in the botanical treasures he had so lavishly accumulated.
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Baron Hugel. Nature 2, 356–357 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002356h0
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