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This work was a sample of the recreation which filled all his 

 vacations. In the ordinary understanding of the meaning of a 

 vacation, he never had one — for vacation was a time for unin- 

 terrupted work. 



The Journal of Mycology was inaugurated in 1885 by Dr. 

 Kellerman, J. B. Ellis and B. M. Everhart, Dr. Kellerman tak- 

 ing the initiative, and the responsibility of publication. The 

 Journal was published four years under this arrangement, and 

 was then discontinued because of the expense involved. The 

 Division of Pathology, United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, took up the work and issued three volumes during 1889-94. 



In 1902 Dr. Kellerman again undertook the work of publish- 

 ing and editing the Journal, this time assuming the entire re- 

 sponsibility himself. In 1902-3 it was issued quarterly; from 

 that time up to the present it has been bi-monthly. Mycologists 

 need not be told that it required an inexhaustible amount of 

 energy and zeal to carry on this work, but even the drudgery of 

 proof-reading and tlie mechanical work of publishing the Journal 

 were not deemed drudgery by this tireless worker, who found so 

 much pleasure in every phase of his work. 



In the words of one of his students, — "One would be in- 

 clined to believe that he would become consumed of his own 

 zeal, so relentless and persevering was he in the performance 

 of his duties, and so great was his capacity in the accomplish- 

 ment of what he planned to do." 



This seems especially apropos, when we consider that 

 notwithstanding the pressure of his varied work, he began in 

 1903 the publication of a Mycological Bulletin, which has been 

 issued monthly since its inauguration. 



In spite of his rare zeal as a collector, it was as a teacher 

 that he believed he was doing his best work. He watched the 

 progress of his studetlts with the keenest interest and always 

 manifested genuine pleasure in their success and promotion. 



No effort was two great for him to make in guiding and 

 helping students who showed a desire for assistance, and no 

 time was ever considered lost that was spent in giving advice and 

 suggestions to even the most elementary students. Such disin- 

 terested enthusiasm had its results, and the list of American 

 botanists who at the present day attribute their start in botanical 

 work to his influence is a long one. Nor was it for the stu- 

 dent alone that he thought and planned and worked. His col- 

 leagues of humbler rank, the teachers in the public schools, 

 found him ever ready and eager to discuss their work and give 

 advice and suggestion. Even to the farmer in the field he was 

 an inspiration, in proof of which the following quotation from a 

 recent letter is given : 



"As a mycologist, I am what T am because there was a Dr. 

 W. A. Kellerman. July i6th, 1885, I was plowing like Cin- 



