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of Izabal, the goal they had set. They broke up camp and started 

 for Izabal, but ater having gone about three miles, were forced 

 to return and make preparations for going down the mountain. 

 After a night's rest the descent was undertaken. Dr. Keller- 

 man was able to dress himself and walk to where his mule was 

 waiting. Los Amates was reached about five o'clock in the 

 afternoon. Here they stayed all night and took the train 

 for Zacapa, the following day. They went at once to a hotel ; 

 Dr. Kellerman went to bed, and a physician was called. 



The next morning, Sunday, March the eighth, he seemed in 

 good spirits, and at noon laughed and joked about the good 

 dinner he was to have; ate a reasonable amount, rested fairly 

 well through the afternoon and near five o'clock asked for toast 

 and tea, and said he thought he could go to sleep — about mid- 

 night he passed unconsciously from that sleep into the mystery 

 of death. 



One of the young men with Dr. Kellerman on the trip said, 

 'T think it was utter exhaustion and lack of sleep as much as 

 malaria that caused his death. He would get up some morn- 

 ings at three o'clock and begin work. He certainly was fine to 

 us, and would almost daily ask for suggestions regarding the 

 next year's trip and the necessary equipment. Only the other 

 night he was telling us he didn't see why he was not good for 

 twenty years yet, and discussed his plans for writing a book 

 on Guatemalan plants, which he hoped soon to publish. He 

 had more grit than any man I ever knew." 



While no accurate statement can as yet be made as to the 

 amount of material collected, specimens representing over 

 one thousand species were brought back from this last ill-fated 

 trip. Every one of them had been collected with a thrill of joy; 

 for if ever anyone had joy in his work, that one was Dr. Keller- 

 man. And, in Guatemala there seemed to be a fascination 

 which took entire possession of body and soul. He deemed the 

 climate elysian ; the country a paradise, and while collecting 

 there, his happiness was supreme. 



The members of his family have traveled widely, and it 

 had long been understood among them that if death should 

 come to anyone while far from home, the burial should be at 

 the place of death. Dr. Kellerman was therefore buried at 

 Zapaca, and there, in the country he so loved his body rests. 



Wiliam Ashbrook Kellerman was born at Ashville, Ohio, 

 May 1st, 1850. In 1874 he graduated from Cornell University. 

 He was married in July, 1876, to Stella V. Dennis, who was in 

 complete sympathy with his scientific career and who aided him 

 in the preparation of some of his most important books and 

 papers. After teaching five years in the State Normal School 

 at Oshkosh, Wis., he spent two years studying in Europe and 

 received the degree of Ph. D. in Zurich. Upon his return to 



