132 Letters, Announcements, ^c. 



by hinij iu 1840^ of the long-forgotten Dodo's head among 

 various " Natviralier " whicli had been recently transfeiTed 

 from the old Gottorp Museum to that of Copenhagen. In 

 1845 he sailed as a naturalist in the Danish corvette ' Gala- 

 thea ' on a voyage round the world, proceeding first to the 

 Nicobar Islands (then belonging to Denmark), thence to 

 India, China, and South America, arriving at Uio de Janeiro 

 in 1847. Here orders awaited him to visit the bone -caves of 

 Lagoa Santa, so celebrated for the collections made there by 

 Lund, which, during Reinhardt's absence, had been trans- 

 mitted to Copenhagen. To his native city he returned in 

 1848, and was appointed Inspector of the Zoological Mu- 

 seum, a position which, as well as that of Curator of the Lund 

 Collection, and titular Professor of Zoology in the University, 

 he held till his death. He subsequently twice revisited Brazil, 

 namely in 1850-52 and in 1854-56. A list of Reinhardt's 

 many zoological publications, up to 1875 inclusive, is given in 

 Herr C. C. A. Gosch's* ' Udsigt over Danmark's Zoologiske 

 Literatur' (iii. pp. 423-439), which is the more needed 

 since, in the well-known Bibliographia of Carus and Engel- 

 mann, no distinction is made between the writings of the two 

 Reinhardts, father and son. Our own readers have had 

 several opportunities of becoming acquainted with some of 

 the latter's labours ; but that by which he will always be cele- 

 brated in ornithology is his having been the first to recognize 

 the now fully admitted Columbine affinity of the Dodo. Of 

 this he had already fully satisfied himself in 1843, as is proved 

 by a letter he addressed in that year to Sundevall, who printed 

 an extract from it in his ' Berattelse om Framstegen i verte- 

 brerade Djurens Naturalhistoria och Ethnografien under aren 

 1845-1850' (p. 245, note). Reinhardt's extensive informa- 

 tion, which he Avas always so ready to impart, and his unas- 

 suming manner made him greatly liked by all with whom he 

 came into contact ; and his death is regretted by a large circle 

 of friends in his own country and by many abroad. 



* The writer of this notice has to express gratefully his indebtedness to 

 Herr Gosch for most of the particulars above given of Reinhardt's career. 



