We associate the name of Humboldt with oceans, continents mountains and volcanoes with the great plains the wide deserts the snow-lipped craters of the Andes with primeval forests and European capitals with wildernesses and universities with savages and savants with the lonely rivers of unpeopled wastes with peaks and pampas, and steppes, and cliffs and crags with the progress of the world with every science known to man, and with every star glittering in the immensity of space.

"We associate the name of Humboldt with oceans, continents, mountains, volcanoes with towering palms the snow-lipped craters of the Andes the wide deserts with primeval forests and European capitals with wilderness and universities with savages and savants with the lonely rivers of unpeopled wastes with peaks, pampas, steppes, cliffs and crags with the progress of the world with every science known to man and with every star glittering in the immensity of space.