Biographical Memoir of the late Henry Kuhl. 91 



Europe he had already increased the list of mammalia by many 

 new ones, to which he would without doubt have added many> 

 more in Java. ":: 



But of all the departments of natural history, Ornithology 

 was that which he most enriched by his discoveries, most of 

 which he made along with the celebrated Temminck. His in, 

 dex to the coloured plates of Buffon, which Swinderen publish-^) 

 ed with his consent, is also of much advantage to ornithology. 

 This work of Buffon, which comprehends the whole range of the 

 birds known in his time, is much superior to most of the works 

 on the same subject, and will always remain so ; but of what 

 importance would these figures be without systematic names ? 

 This deficiency, then, was supplied by Kiihl. Besides, he wrote 

 a monograph on the genus Psittacus, in which he included 200 

 species, a considerable number of them being first characterised 

 by himself, or distinguished and named with the assistance of 

 Temminck. Moreover, he described in his Auctaria a new ge* 

 nus discovered by himself, to which he gave the name of Ptilo- 

 norynchus, and wrote a monograph on the difficult genus Pro- 

 cellaria. Lastly, during his journey, as well as in Java itself, 

 he made many other interesting discoveries in this department, 

 of which, however^ we are as yet only acquainted with a small 

 part. 



With regard to the Amphibia, he has the merit of having 

 added many names to Seba'*s figures in his Thesaurus, by which 

 he has much facilitated a reference to that work. Many of his 

 observations on Seba's figures are also contained in the additions 

 already mentioned. We there also find critical remarks on 

 Daudin's work on serpents, and very useful annotations regard- 

 ing the number of the abdominal and caudal scuta of serpentsj 

 of which much use is now deservedly made for the purpose of 

 specific distinction. Had it been his fate to have returned from 

 India, he would assuredly have described the new species of 

 amphibia which he had discovered, according to Merrem's me- 

 thod. With respect to invertebrate animals, he did not publish 

 any of his discoveries previous to his Indian journey. What- 

 ever, therefore, was found by him subsequently, was common to 

 him and his companion Van Hasselt. In regard to compara- 

 tive anatomy, Kiihl made most of his observations along with 



