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formation of this immense collection and the publication of his 

 great ornithological work did not, however, so completely occupy 

 his time as to preclude him from giving some portion of his atten- 

 tion to the study of the mammalia; and his two volumes of 

 * Monographies de Mammalogie,' published in 4to at Paris and 

 at Leyden, between 1825 and 1841, attest the extent of his ac- 

 quirements in that department of Zoological Science. His original 

 predilection for everything connected with the East Indies had 

 been strengthened and renewed by the acquisition and description 

 of a multitude of zoological novelties from the Dutch possessions 

 in the Eastern Islands, and was strongly evinced in his work 

 entitled ' Coup d'oeil general sur les Possessions Neerlandaises 

 dans rinde Archipelagique,' 3 tom. 8vo, Leide, 1847-9. JS'or 

 must I omit to mention the splendid work, in three volumes folio, 

 published under his superintendence, chiefly by the officers of 

 the Leyden Museum, under the title of ' Verhandelingen over de 

 natuurlijke Geschiedenis des Nederlandsche overzeesche bezit- 

 tingen,' or the important aid given by him to the ' Eauna 

 Japonica' of Yon Siebold, likewise published under his direction. 

 His last work, published at Leyden in 1853 and the two follow- 

 ing years, under the title of ' Esquisses Zoologiques sur la cote 

 de Gruinee,' affords conclusive evidence that, at the age of 77, his 

 industry was undiminished, his faculties were unimpaired, and he 

 continued to enjoy uninterrupted good health ; but in the course 

 of that year it became evident that his health was suffering, and 

 he died on the 30th of January in the present year, having nearly 

 completed his 80th year. He was thrice married, and has left a 

 widow and three sons by his last marriage. On his first visit to 

 England, in 1819, he laid before our Society "An Account of some 

 new species of Birds of the genera Fsittacus and Columla, in the 

 Museum of the Linnean Society," the greater part of which, 

 he states, were brought from the south, east, and north coasts 

 of JsTew Holland by Mr. Brown, who communicated much useful 

 information derived from his notes. This valuable memoir 

 was published in the thirteenth volume of our ' Transactions ; ' 

 and in the following year, 1820, M. Temminck was elected a 

 Eoreign Member of the Linnean Society. Besides the honours 

 which he received in his own country, he was a Correspondent of 

 the Academy of Sciences of Paris, of tlie Eoyal Academy of Sciences 

 of Berlin, of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, and of many 

 other scientific bodies. He had also received the decorations of 

 the Lion of the Netherlands, of the Legion of Honour, and of the 



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