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formation of this immense collection and the publication of lii3 

 great ornithological work did not_. however, so completely occupy 

 his time as to preclude him from giving some portion of his atten- 

 tion to the study of the mammalia ; and his two volumes of 

 ' jMonographies de IMammalogie,' published in 4to at Paris and 

 at Leyden, beto^een 1825 and 1841, attest the extent of his ac- 

 quirements in that department of Zoological Science. His original 

 predilection for everything connected with the East Indies had 

 been strengthened and renewed by the acquisition and description 

 of a multitude of zoological novelties from the Dutch possessions 

 in tlie Eastern Islands, and was strongly evinced in his work 

 entitled ' Coup d'oeil general sur les Possessions iNeerlan daises 

 dans I'lnde Archipelagique,' 3 torn. Svo, Leide, 1847-9. Xor 

 must I omit to mention the splendid work, in tlu'ce volumes foHo, 

 published under his superintendence, chiefly by the officers of 

 the Leydeu Museum, imder the title of ' Yerhandeliugen over de 

 natuurlijke Geschiedenis des Xederlandsehe overzeesche bezit- 

 tingen,' or the important aid given by him to the ' Fauna' 

 Japonica' of Yon Siebold, likemse published under his direction. 

 His last work, published at Leyden in 1853 and the two follow- 

 ing years, imder the title of ' Esquisses Zoologiques sur la cote 

 de Gruinee,' affords conclusive evidence that, at the age of 77, his 

 industry was undiminished, his faculties were unimpaired, and he 

 continued to enjoy uninterrupted good health ; but in the course 

 of that year it became evident that his health was suffering, and 

 he died on the 30th of January in the present year, having nearly 

 completed his 80th year. He was tin-ice married, and has left a 

 widow and three sons by his last marriage. On his first visit to 

 England, in 1819, he laid before our Society " An Accoimt of some 

 new species of Birds of the genera Psittaciis and Columha, in the 

 Musemn of the Linnean Society," the greater part of which, 

 he states, were brought froin the south, east, and north coasts 

 of Xew Holland by Mr. Brown, who communicated much useful 

 information derived from his notes. This valuable memoir 

 was published in the thirteenth volume of our ' Transactions ; ' 

 and in the following year, 1820, M. Temminck was elected a 

 Foreign Member of the Linnean Society. Besides the honours 

 which he received in his ovrn country, he was a Correspondent of 

 the Academy of Sciences of Paris, of the Eoyal Academy of Sciences 

 of Berlin, of the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg, and of many 

 other scientific bodies. He had also received the decorations of 

 the Lion of the Netherlands, of the Legion of Honour, and of the 



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