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I invite you to be my traveling companion.
Judging by a circumstantial letter from Dollinger, the instruction in the natural sciences leaves nothing to be desired there.
Add to this that the lectures are free, and the theatre open to students at twenty-four kreutzers.
No lack of advantages and attractions, lodgings hardly more expensive than at Heidelberg, board equally cheap, beer plenty and good.
Let all this persuade you. We shall hear Gruithuisen in popular astronomy, Schubert in general natural history, Martius in botany, Fuchs in mineralogy, Seiber in mathematics, Starke in physics, Oken in everything (he lectures in winter on the philosophy of nature, natural history, and physiology). The clinical instruction will be good.
We shall soon be friends with all the professors.
The library contains whatever is best in botany and Zoology, and the collections open to the public are very rich.
It is not known whether Schelling will lecture, but at all events certain of the courses will be of great advantage.
Then little vacation trips to the Salzburg and Carinthian Alps are easily made from there!
Write soon whether you will go and drink Bavarian beer and Schnapski with me, and write also when we are to see you in Heidelberg and
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