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Catalosiio is intendod to lio ('()nii)loto nnd to fnlly oxhihit onr knowledge 

 conoerniiiff the gron|i of which it ticats as irrcscutcd in tlu' fauna of Indi- 

 ana." In it ("all dcsciilied. and for the most part figured, 185 species of land 

 and fi-t'sli watci- shells from different parts of the State. In two years 

 I>aiiicls. iiy his close tield collecting, found no fewer than 91 species not 

 included in Call's catalogue. As up to that time he had had little experience 

 in writing scientilic papers, and as I was somewhat familiar with the sub- 

 ject of conchology, we prepared a joint paper entitled "On some Mollusca 

 Known to Occur in Indiana : A Supplementary Paper to Call's Catalogue," 

 in which these 01 species were described and many of them figured. This 

 was published in the Twenty-seventh (1903) Annual Report of the Depart- 

 ment of Geology. In the same volume was a paper by Daniels entitled "A 

 Check List of Indiana Mollusca with Localities." in which the 27C species 

 known from the State were listed and their local distribution given. 



In 1905 Daniels returned to Laporte and later moved with bis sister to 

 a farm near Rolling Prairie in the same county, where he was living at the 

 time of his death, which occurred in a Chicago hospital on October 23, 1918. 



During his later years I saw Daniels only a few times, and these usually 

 on occasions of the winter or spring meetings of the Academy, or when he 

 visited this city in connection with his Masonic duties, a fraternity in 

 which he took much interest and in which he received the thirty-third or 

 highest degree. I last saw him at the annual meeting of the Indiana Audu- 

 bon Society at Michigan City in May, 1917. He then told me that, in com- 

 pany with H. A. Pillsbry of Philadelphia, Junius Henderson of Boulder, 

 Colorado, and Jas. H. Ferriss of Joliet. Illinois, all noted conchologists, he 

 was making annual collecting trips to Idaho. Ftah, New Mexico or Arizona 

 in search of mollusks. reptiles, etc. The results of two of these trips were 

 afterward published in joint papers by himself and Henderson in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science. 



Nearly a dozen species of fossil insects aaid shells were named in honor 

 of Daniels by his co-workers and contemporaries. His private collection of 

 land and fresh water shells was one of the largest and most complete in 

 this country, and after his death was purchased by Bryant Walker of 

 Detroit for the Museum of Zoology at Michigan University. His collection 

 of fossil insects went to the museum of the University of Illinois. No 

 disposal has as yet been made of his reptile collection. 



During our four years of association on the State Survey I found L. B. 

 Daniels to be a conscientious worker, an lionorable gentleman, a genial 

 companion. He was one of the kind of men who do much and say little. 

 Of such men there are too few on this earth today. In his death this Acad-' 

 emy lost a member of greater worth than is perhaps appreciated by most 

 of us who are left. 



I append herewith a list of the published writings of Daniels as far as 

 I have knowledge of them. In addition to the two ali-eady mentioned there 

 are three others which deal with Indiana Mollusca and may therefore be 

 of more than passing interest to some of the members of the Academy. 

 These are numbers 1, 3 and 4 of those cited. 



