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was applied well up upon the arm, the wound was scored and a 

 quantity of blood was removed by sucking and by free bleeding. 

 Antidotes were also applied externally and administered internally. 

 Medical aid was instantly summoned. Dr. C. H. Eigenmann by 

 long distance telephone succeeded in reaching Mr. Raymond L. 

 Ditmars, of the New York Zoological Garden, who promptly 

 sent a supply of antitoxic serum at the hands of the conductor of 

 the first fast express train from New York to Pittsburgh. This 

 did not reach the city until after midnight on the 1 6th, and al- 

 though administered as soon as it came to hand, it failed to be 

 effective, the case being already beyond control. 



Mr. Gustav Adolph Link was born in Pittsburgh on May 15, 

 i860. His parents, John George and Elizabeth Link, were immi- 

 grants from Germany. After passing through the common 

 schools, he became a baker's apprentice, and having completed 

 his apprenticeship, continued to follow this calling, having estab- 

 lished a baking and confectionery shop, in which he was a.ble 

 to obtain a living for himself and family. The love of nature, 

 however, was born in him, and all the time which he could spare 

 from his business he devoted to the study of the living things of 

 the fields and woodlands. He took up the self-imposed task of 

 making a collection of the birds of the vicinity, and, in order to 

 this, acquired a knowledge of taxidermy. He presently won 

 reputation among his neighbors, and his services came to be in 

 demand in mounting trophies of the chase and in preserving the 

 skins of domestic pets. And so it came about that along with 

 the work of the bakery he carried on in a small way the work of a 

 taxidermist. Early in the year 1897, after it had been decided to 

 employ Mr. Frederic S. Webster of New York as the Chief Taxi- 

 dermist at the Carnegie Museum, Mr. Link applied to be taken 

 into employment as an assistant. He was to work during regular 

 hours while the baking and confectionery business would be 

 carried on by his good wife. He justified the expectations raised 

 concerning himself, and until his death remained with the Museum, 

 he after a while having entirely abandoned his original calling. 



Mr. Link was a capable collector in the field. He accom- 

 panied Dr. Atkinson and Dr. O. E. Jennings on the journeys which 





