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liberality truly princely, all that was necessary or useful. He set out 

 in 1815, accompanied by several persons able to second him in his dif- 

 ficult task, among others by Messrs. Bik and Pay en, excellent draughts- 

 men, who indeed rendered him important service. 



" No one has ever pretended that Dr. Keinwardt did not well acquit 

 himself of his task. I have spoken of it at length in a biography which 

 I have in manuscript and intend to publish. A journey on the island 

 of Java, made with the Commissaries-General, an excursion in the Mo- 

 luccas, long sojourns in the islands of Amboina, Banda, Timor, Celebes, 

 Ternate, etc., were a part of his travels in the East Indies. During 

 these expeditions Dr. Reinwardt made numerous discoveries in many 

 branches of natural science. They may, in general, be ranged under 

 two heads i — those which specially have reference to the history of the 

 countries, their productions, inhabitants, etc., and those which have 

 reference to Mineralogy, Zoology, and Botany. During his travels Dr. 

 Reinwardt made considerable collections, of which those that do not 

 belong to the vegetable kingdom are placed in the Museum of Natural 

 History at Leyden; such as have escaped the shipwrecks, in which 

 three rich collections, despatched for Holland, were swallowed up. 

 With regard to Dr. Reinwardt' s drawings and notes, they were pre- 

 served, as well as his herbaria, by himself till his death, which took 

 place in March, 1854?. 



"On his return from his travels in 1822, Dr. Reinwardt found a 

 double task of great importance to fulfil. During his stay at Java, he 

 had been appointed to succeed to the chair vacant by the death of the 

 immortal Brugmans. The duties ofthispost were already too manifold 

 to be laid on one man. The zeal with which Dr. Reinwardt applied 

 himself to them is too well known, but particularly at Leyden, for it to 

 be necessary for us to relate in detail the manner in which he acquitted 

 himself of his academical functions. But, besides, he had to compile a 

 general report of his mission to the Indies. It was expected of the 

 learned naturalist, that he should carefully set in order and study the 

 materials he had collected, and that he should publish an exact and de- 

 tailed account of all his researches. Unfortunately Dr. Reinwardt was 

 not able to satisfy so just an expectation, and in a sense so extended. 

 For many years the Government had the advantage of his intelligence 

 on the gravest questions relating to Colonial affairs. H. occasionally 

 made the most interesting communications to the Royal Institute of the 



