THE 



EDINBURGH NEW 

 PHILOSOPHICAL JOURNAL, 



Biographical Memoir of the late Henry Kuhl, M. P. Doctor 

 of Natural History^ S^c. S^c, * 



JlXenry Kuhl was born at Hanau, on the 17th September 

 179*7. His father, John Henry Kuhl, was president of the pro- 

 vincial court of judicature, an office which he still continues to 

 discharge. His mother, Maria Judith Walther, who died at an 

 advanced age, was the daughter of Frederick William Walther, 

 who was Councillor of State at Hanover. 



Kiihl, who was by nature endoAved with an excellent genius, 

 was, from his earliest years, so fond of the study of natural his- 

 tory, that he usually devoted to it all his spare hours after the 

 ordinary labours of the school had been performed. He hap- 

 pened to be born at a time and in a country which were parti- 

 cularly favourable to the cultivation of his genius ; for no one 

 will deny that the discoveries, by which many parts of natural 

 history have of late years been elucidated, are in no small de- 

 gree to be attributed to the naturalists on the Mayne. 



In the number of these were many friends of his father, such 

 as Leisler, Meyer, Gaertner, and De Leonhard. The two for- 

 mer introduced him to the study of geology, Gaertner to that of 

 botany, while Leonhard taught him that of mineralogy in ge- 

 neral. But he was especially indebted to the care of Leisler, 



Prepared from the Memoirs of the Academia Csesarea of Leopoldino-Carolina?. 

 APRIL JULY 1826. A 



