guarded with anxious care. Up to this moment the skull had been
wrapped in a cloth and sealed: the younger Goethe now made it over
to the librarian, Professor Riemer, to be unpacked and placed in its
receptacle. All present subscribed their names, the pedestal was
locked, and the key carried home to Goethe.

"None doubted that Schiller's head was now at rest for many years.
But it had already occurred to Goethe, who had more osteological
knowledge than the excellent Burgermeister, that, the skull being in
their possession, it would be possible to find the skeleton. A very
few days after the ceremony in the library, he sent to Jena, begging
the Professor of Anatomy, Dr. Schroter, to have the kindness to
spend a day or two at Weimar, and to bring with him, if possible, a
functionary of the Jena Museum, Farber by name, who had at one time
been Schiller's servant. As soon as they arrived, Goethe placed the
matter in Schroter's hands. Again the head was raised from its
pillow and carried back to the dismal Kasselgewolbe, where the bones
still lay in a heap. The chief difficulty was to find the first
vertebra; after that all was easy enough. With some exceptions,
comparatively trifling, Schroter succeeded in reproducing the
skeleton, which then was laid in a new coffin 'lined with blue
merino,' and would seem (though we are not distinctly told) to have
been deposited in the library. Professor Schroter's register of
bones recovered and bones missing has been both preserved and
printed. The skull was restored to its place in the pedestal.
There was another shriek from the public at these repeated
violations of the tomb; and the odd position chosen for Schiller's
head, apart from his body, called forth, not without reason,
abundant criticism.