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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.[1] 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
- ↑ Professor Muncke, who has written several works, was the most active of the authors who contributed, from 1825, till 1845, articles to a new edition of Gehler's Dictionary of Natural Philosophy (Physikalisches Worterbuch), first published in the years 1787-95. Even since 1826, he had been an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg. He died on the 17th October, 1847.
