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At the time of his death Stoliczka was returning laden with 
natural-history spoils from Kashgar and Yarkand, with the 
mission dispatched by the Government of India under Sir 
Douglas Forsyth to those distant regions. 
His enthusiasm had led him to join this expedition, though 
strongly urged not to do so on account of the state of his 
health. His name must be added to the honourable roll of 
those who, reckoning no risks where science is to be served, 
have died in the advancement of her cause. 
Dr. J. J. Kaup, for many years Director of the Museum in 
Darmstadt, at one period of his career paid considerable at¬ 
tention to ornithology. Unfortunately his ornithological 
work was warped and biased by his adherence to a peculiar 
artificial system much in vogue about forty or fifty years 
ago, but which has now happily given place to more rational 
views. 
Dr. Kaup's chief ornithological publications are his f Skiz- 
zirte Entwickelungs-Geschichte u. natiirl. System der europ. 
Thierwelt (Darmstadt: 1829), “ Monographie der Genera der 
Falconidse" (published in the f Isis' for 1847, and illus¬ 
trated by two admirable plates by Wolf), and his f Classifi¬ 
cation der Saugethiere und Vogel' (Darmstadt: 1844). In 
these a vast number of new generic names are proposed, 
some of which have been adopted. 
Besides these, Dr. Kaup described a number of species in 
Sir W. Jardine's f Contributions to Ornithology,' in the 
f Isis,' the f Proceedings' of the Zoological Society, in f Wieg- 
man's Archiv,' and in the f Journal fur Ornithologie.' His 
descriptions are, unfortunately, exceedingly brief and difficult 
to make out; so that at the present time some of the names 
he proposed run the risk of falling altogether into abeyance 
through the insufficiency of the characters accompanying their 
introduction. 
The zoological collection in the Darmstadt Museum, long 
under Dr. Kaup's charge, though not extensive, has the merit 
of being in good order, the specimens being very well mounted. 
In this respect it, and several other collections in Germany, 
