EM i THE LATE MR. GRIFFITH. 
the means at his disposal enabled him to accomplish with 
justice to himself.” 
Although Mr. Griffiths researches were directed primarily 
to Botany, he neglected no opportunity, during his visits to 
various parts of India, of attending also to other departments 
of Natural History. Of his zeal and success in Zoology, 
his collections afford abundant proof; tbey consist chiefly 
of mammalia, birds, fishes, and insects. While attached 
to the army of the Indus, he made, on account of Go- 
vernment, large collections of mammalia, and birds, which 
have been transmitted to the Honourable Court of Direc- 
tors, and constitute a valuable addition to the museum 
at the India House. In mammalogy he collected a consider- 
able number of the smaller animals of Affghanistan, among 
which are several new to science; but his ornithological 
collections are still more extensive, having brought together 
about six hundred specimens, not only from the route of the 
army, but from several separate excursions to the ranges of 
mountains north of Cabul. Besides the discovery of a con- 
siderable number of new species, the interest of these collec- . 
tions consists in their affording, perhaps, the most extensive 
and instructive illustration of the geographical distribution of 
the several species of birds found in India, which has as yet — 
been attempted. - | 
Mr. Griffith has also been zealous and successful as à 
collector of the fresh-water fishes of India, during his various 
travels: the importance and extent of these is detailed in 4 
paper on the subject, printed in the second volume of the 
Caleutta Journal of Natural History; and some of his dis- 
coveries in Entomology have been communicated to the 
public by the Rev. F. W. Hope, in the eighteenth volume of 
the Transactions of the Linnæan Society of London. 
He was most especially remarkable for the philosophical 
spirit in which he invariably prosecuted his researches, and 
for the patience with which he watched the most minute 
phenomena which appeared to him connected with the 
