W Biographical Memoir of the late Henry KM. 



. Another merit of KiihPs was, that, besides the study of na- 

 tural liistory in the more limited sense, he paid attention to ana- 

 tomy also, and to physiology, or rather biology. Although 

 the study of physiology was of all others that which he prefer- 

 red, he was yet free of a fault into which many naturalists fall, 

 who, on account of the main object of their science, which they 

 take to be the determination of the general laws of nature, de- 

 spise the aids of less elevated but subsidiary studies ; whence 

 it necessarily follows, that they always fall short of their object. 

 But Kiihl did better ; he set about both kinds of study with 

 equal diligence, and in this respect is the only naturalist who 

 can be compared with PaUas. 



Tiedemann, the celebrated anatomist of Heidelberg, when 

 he met with Kiihl on his journey to Paris, said, that " a more 

 accomplished naturalist never before travelled f' and Temminck 

 writes thus to one of his friends, " Science, by the death of 

 Kiihl, has lost another Linnaeus.*" 



But even these were not KiihFs only merits, but rather the 

 beginning and foundation of greater excellence ; for he not only 

 knew what others had done, but contributed as long as he lived 

 to the improvement of science. Without insisting much upon 

 his Annotations, not yet published, his Fauna of New Holland 

 and India, or his Monograph on the genus Falco, besides the 

 discoveries which he made in Java, and which, as they have not 

 yet been made public, cannot be judged of, we shall confine our- 

 selves here to the advantages which he has conferred upon science 

 by his publications. 



. With regard to Mammalia, he drew up a general conspectus 

 of this class, in the essay mentioned above, for which he gained 

 the gold medal. In his monograph on the Simiae, a work which 

 seems to be the most complete in regard to the number of spe- 

 cies of any upon the subject, he has described 111 species, and 

 among these several new ones, first defined by himself, as well 

 as many others which had hitherto been merely named. In his 

 monograph on the Bats of Germany, he made known three new 

 species, and rectified many errors connected with the specific 

 distinctions. In his Zoologies Auctaria, he has proposed a new 

 genus, Saccophorus (the Mus bursarius of Shaw), and made 

 known various new species of mammalia ; so that before he left 



