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M. H. ZOLLINGER. 
As wc have the honor of numbering this most enterprising and suc¬ 
cessful naturalist amongst our contributors,* we cannot allow him to 
depart from the Archipelago without an expression of our regret. 
For the last seven years M. Zollinger has in a tropical climate de¬ 
voted himselfto scientific research with an ardour which difficulties and 
fatigue have only served to excite the more. His botanical pursuits 
have carried him to the summits of the highest mountains in Java. 
During the last years of his sojourn he has extended his investiga¬ 
tions to the hitherto undcscribed country of the Lam pongs in Suma¬ 
tra on the one side, and the scarcely more known islands of Bali, 
Lombok and Sumbawa oil the other. 
“ Following with brilliant results tbe footsteps of the distinguished bo¬ 
tanists, who, in the last deeennium, selected this Archipelago as the field 
of their researches, M. Zollinger has discovered a great number of genera 
and species hitherto undcscribed. Of these he has described not less than 
13 new genera, viz. Gutimbergia , Ghjaspermum , Bombycidmdron , Pa- 
racvlsea; Nov. gen. Haernadoracearum , Claolrachelus , Anthocoma, Tri - 
chacanthuSj Odontustigma , Murrithia , Haterachama, Drebbelia , Cin- 
clidocarpus, and 105 new species, while numerous other new genera and 
species which he sent to Europe have been described partly by himself and 
partly by Professor Morilzi, Dr Levcille, M. Scharcr and M. Dubij in a 
separate work published in 18i6 by Professor Moritzi.”f 
Although botanical discovery has been the primary object of bis wan¬ 
derings, his love of knowledge has been too catholic to allow of his un¬ 
dervaluing other enquiries. A mountain tribe, a language, the climate, 
rocks and animals of a district, have attracted him equally with new 
plants. It is this genuine appreciation of all the scientific, as well 
as the sensible, aspects of nature, which gives a peculiar charm to M. 
Zollinger’s descriptions. Most of his contributions to the literature 
of the Archipelago have been necessarily written with haste, but 
they are all of exceeding interest and full of valuable information. 
To the Natuur en Geneskundig Arehief voor Neerlands Indie he has 
#. i n a n early number we shall publish an account of a tribe disco¬ 
vered by M. Zollinger in the mountains of Ilona. 
f \ddress of the PresidenFof the Batavia n Society of Arts and Sciences 
at the general meeting, May, 1847, Verhanddingm 4*c, vob sxi. p- 83= 
