Biographical Memoir of' the late Henry Kiihl. 11 



respect to the mode of travelling in hot countries, and was of 

 much assistance to him in procuring the articles necessary for 

 his journey. 



Before leaving England, Kuhl made an excursion, along with 

 Laugier and a Breslau student, through the south of England, 

 visiting Oxford, Windsor, Bath, Bristol, Severn, Southampton, 

 the Isle of Wight, and Plymouth. Wherever he came to the 

 sea, he collected natural objects ; and many beautiful shells, both 

 terrestrial and aquatic, were given by him to the Groningen 

 Museum, as a memorial of his journey. 



During the short time which he spent in Holland, an ho- 

 nour was conferred upon him which is seldom given to stu- 

 dents, he having been promoted to the degree of Master of Phi- 

 losophy and Doctor of Natural History, on the 6lh August ; as 

 an acknowledgment for which, he presented to the Museum of 

 the University four new genera of birds of the rarest kind, Po- 

 zoporus, Melliphaga, Menura and Aptenodytes. 



In the beginning of September, accompanied with his friend 

 Cremersius, whose loss we have now also to deplore, and with 

 Van Hasselt, he returned by Brussels, Naumur, (where he 

 met with Professor Galdius), Aix-la-Chapelle and Newied, 

 (where he consulted Prince Maximilian with regard to his in- 

 tended journey) to Hanau, where he remained with his father 

 for some time, while his friends Cremersius and Van Hasselt 

 made an excursion through Switzerland. 



In the beginning of November he left his father and went to 

 Strasburg, in order to meet his friends tliere according to pro- 

 mise, and continue his journey with them to Paris. The end 

 which he had in view, in undertaking this journey, was to study 

 the invertebrate animals a second time, under the direction of 

 Cuvier and Lamarck ; to examine the herbarium made a short 

 time before in Java by Leschenault, and hitherto known to few ; 

 but, above all, by making use of the rich collection of amphibia 

 in Paris, to bring more quickly to a conclusion the system of 

 amphibia which he had been busied in for two years back. 



Besides, as he had seen all the collections in Berlin and Lon- 

 don, he was anxious to inspect those which yet remained in 

 abundance in Paris. For which piu*pose, Kiihl and Van Has- 

 selt having taken lodgings near the museum of Natural History, 



