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equipped for his journey, but by the mere love of natural history, 

 that he was actuated, — a truly sublime affection, which made 

 him spare no labour in collecting new objects of investigation. 



When he was last at Hanau, anticipating the difficulties 

 wliich he had to encounter, he thus wrote to Swinderen : " I 

 have determined to make a journey to the eastern countries, 

 and go I shall, if there be no other way, even in the capacity of 

 a barber." Such was the love of Kiihl for his profession. 



But Kiihl had also other properties, which, however becoming 

 in his person, were especially adapted for the department of 

 science on which he had fixed his affections. Besides his other 

 virtues, he was distinguished by an ingenuous mind. Truth, 

 obedience, modesty, and a grateful remembrance of benefits, were 

 among the ornaments of his mind. He willingly accommodated 

 himself to the manners of his friends ; but, when persuaded 

 that he was better acquainted with a scientific subject under dis- 

 cussion, he defended his opinion with warmth, although with 

 modesty, nor yielded rashly to the determination of others. His 

 filial piety, and the affection which he bore to his brothers and 

 sisters, were highly exemplary ; and it is to be mentioned to his 

 honour, that he would receive nothing from his father, although 

 it would gladly have been given him, lest he should diminish 

 the portions of his brothers and sisters. 



Kiihrs greatest merit was to have embraced the whole com- 

 pass of natural history. For when he came to Groningen in 

 1816, he already knew a great number of minerals, both oryc- 

 tognostically and geologically, the whole of the plants indige- 

 nous to the fertile district of Wetterau, and all the mammalia, 

 birds, and fishes of the middle parts of Eui'opc. He chiefly 

 studied exotic plants in the Botanical Garden at Groningen, as 

 well as in the other gardens which he saw on his journeys ; and 

 investigated the foreign vertebrated animals in the Groningen 

 Museum, and in those of Berlin, Paris, London, &c., while he 

 principally studied the invertebrate animals at Paris. " I hope,"" 

 says he, in a letter to Swinderen while in Java, " that when I 

 return to Europe, I shall not be accused of cultivating one de- 

 partment only of science, as my aim is not merely to treat those 

 parts well of which I was fondest when at home, but I am also 

 feent upon mastering all the other branches. 



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