Obituary Notes. 7 



they took a number of years ago through the mountain regions of 

 western Pennsylvania to make zoological and botanical collections 

 for the Museum, and in his capacity as a preparator rendered 

 excellent service. He constantly aided Mr. Todd in the collec- 

 tion and preservation of birds and mammals. He was one of the 

 party of three who went to Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas in the 

 spring of 1907 to make collections for the Museum, and twice 

 visited the Isle of Pines, residing there on the occasion of his last 

 visit more than a year, from May, 1912, to the end of June, 1913. 

 The collections of birds and insects which he made during his stay 

 on the island is undoubtedly the largest and best which up to the 

 present time has been made in this locality. When not at work 

 in the field he devoted himself assiduously to his duties in the 

 laboratory. He became particularly skilful in mounting birds 

 and reptiles. The larger part of the birds on exhibition at the 

 present time in the Gallery of Ornithology were either originally 

 mounted by him or remounted. He assisted Mr. Frederic S. 

 Webster, and later Mr. R. H. Santens, in the preparation of a 

 number of the groups both of birds and mammals which adorn 

 the galleries of the Museum. At the time of his death he was 

 engaged in preparing a group of boa-constrictors and iguanas col- 

 lected by himself in the Isle of Pines. The largest boa in the 

 group, which is in fact the largest specimen hitherto reported 

 from that island, was captured alive by Mr. Link, who found it in 

 the jungle engaged in swallowing a white heron. He slipped a bag 

 over the head of the brute, and with the help of an assistant thrust 

 the wriggling body of the monster into the sack, tied it up, and 

 brought it home with him. It lived for a long while in the Museum, 

 where he made a careful study of its form and colors. 



Mr. Link was intrepid, fearless, and indefatigable in the field, 

 in the laboratory industrious and painstaking. In his bearing he 

 was modest and unassuming. His death removes from his associ- 

 ates a friend whose loss is severely felt. He was a member of the 

 First German Methodist Episcopal Church of the South Hills, at 

 which the funeral services were held on the afternoon of August 19. 



