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hitherto been collected within the tropics."* His researches 

 however were soon extended to Annulose animals of every class ; 

 and his collection, now in the possession of the East-India Com- 

 pany, and deposited in their Museum, may very fairly be consi- 

 dered as affording a general view of the entomology of the plain 

 above mentioned, and a kind of typical outline of the entomology 

 of Java itself. Tbese pursuits were interrupted in 1813, on ac- 

 count of the mission to the neighbouring island of Banca, with 

 which, as we shall presently notice, Dr. Horsfield was charged by 

 tlie Governor of Java. But early in the year 1815, they were 

 resumed with renewed energy ; and, during the interval from this 

 period until that of his finally quitting the island in 1817, the 

 Coleopterous insects in the collection were principally obtained. 

 After a visit to Sumatra, in the following year, under circumstances 

 to which we shall advert in a future section of this memoir. Dr. 

 Horsfield arrived in England with his collections in the year 18J9. 

 In concluding this view of the improvements in natural history, 

 as cultivated in this country, resulting from Mr. Rafiles's appoint- 

 ment to be Governor of Java, we will briefly notice the contents of 

 the works in which Dr. Horsfield has described his collections, 

 as indicative of the extent and importance of the latter. He 

 made the first report of his labours to the scientific public in a 

 paper entitled '' Systematic arrangement and description of Birds 

 from the Island of Java," which was read before the Linnean 

 Society on April the 18th, 1820, and was published in the thir- 

 teenth volume of the Society's Transactions. In this paper are 

 described all the birds collected by the author in Java, and de- 

 posited in the East-India Company's Museum ; a corrected cata- 

 logue of them has since appeared in his '' Zoological Researches 

 in Java:" it enumerates 205 species, of which 117 are marked 

 as new, and among these are twelve new genera, all belonging 

 to the order Insessores ; viz. Eiirylaimus^ Horsf., Irena, Horsf., 

 Myophonusy Temm., Timalia^ Horsf., /ora, Horsf., Brachi/pterix^ 

 Horsf., Enicurus^ Temm., Megalurus^ Horsf., Mirufray Horsf., 

 Orthotomus^ Horsf., Pomatorhinus^ Horsf., and Prinia, Horsf. 

 The ^* Zoological Researches" contain detailed descriptionsj pic- 



♦ Annulosa Javanica, Preface, p. v, p. vii. 



