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L. E. DANIELS A UKK IKAIM 1 1( AI, SKETCH. 



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s hniii Marcli I. Is.'.J. near .Ma/.oii. flnindy ("(... 

 (Ill IIk' fa nil, wliicli ho afterward inherited, and 

 I ho country and village schools. He taught f(ir 

 'd one or two forms as sheriff of Grundy County, 

 farm l»(M'amo a tdwn-sito, so that lie had in his 

 which oiialilod liim to devote all his time f(i nat- 

 ural science. 



In his boyhood days Daniels became interested in fossils and shells, and 

 later in reptiles, conchology finally becoming his especial hobby. His homo 

 was located near Mazon Crook, which in that n^gion flows through the Coal 

 .Measures, exposing numerous outcrops of the Upper Carboniferous Hocks. 

 These he fou.nd rich in animal remains, especially in those of insects. In 

 time he gathered personally one of tlie largest and most valuable private 

 collections of Mazon Creek fossil insects extant. These were later worked 

 up by a Dr. Handlirsch of Vienna and the results published as a Memoir 

 by the U. S. National Museum. 



In his study of recent Mollusca Daniels first collected all the si>ecies of 

 land and fresh water shells near his home. After retiring from the sher- 

 iffs office he began to make annual collecting trips to otlier states, going the 

 first few years to North Carolina, Tennessee or Florida, and later extending 

 those trips to the far western States. 



< >ne of his sisters, Mrs. J. M. Foster, lived at Laporte. Ind.. and for a 

 iinniber of years he made his home with her. While there he joined the 

 Indiana Academy of Science, his name first appearing as a member in the 

 I'ldcoedings for the year 1900. It was at one of tlie Academy meetings 

 aliout that time that I first met him. As I was then in need of an assistant 

 to help me in locating the marl deposits in and about the lakes in northern 

 Indiana. I secured his services and we worked together at that task dur- 

 ing the summer of 10(X). Finding him a willing and conscientious worker 

 and an enthusiastic shell collector. I .gave him a iilace as an assistant and 

 field collector for the State Museum, and he served as such for four years. 

 During the months from April to October inclusive of each year he collected 

 shells, fishes, reptiles, batrachians and insects in different parts of the State. 

 These he worked up and installed in the museum during the winter months. 

 All the mounted turtles and snakes, the alcoliolic fishes and reptiles, the but- 

 terflies in Denton tablets and 75% of the land and fresh water shells which 

 wore in tlie museum at the time I turned it over to my successor were col- 

 lected and arranged by Daniels. 



In the year 1809 I had published in my annual report as State Geologist 

 an extended paper by K. E. Call, entitled "A Doscriiitive Illustrated Cata- 

 logue of the Mollusca of Indiana." which started out with the words: "This 



