JOSUA LINDAHUA.M.^PLD. 



Dr. (Johan Harald) Josua Lindahl, for eleven years the 

 Director of the Museum of the Cincinnati Society of Natural 

 History, died in the City of Chicago, of bronchial pneumonia, 

 on April 18, 1912. From the family it is learned that his 

 illness was short. He contracted a cold on the 11th of April; 

 he took to his bed on the 14th; later pneumonia set in, and 

 on the evening of the 18th he passed away without suffering. 



Dr. Lindahl was a man of rare scientific attainments and 

 won for himself distinction on two continents. His earliest 

 claim to recognition was as a zoologist. 



Born at Kungsbacka, Sweden, on January 1, 1814, he re- 

 ceived his education at the Royal University at Lund. This 

 institution conferred on him the degree of A. B. in 1863. In 

 1870, he accompanied Gwyn-Jeffries and Carpenter, as assist- 

 ant zoologist in the British deep sea exploring expedition in 

 H. M. S. Porcupine. In 1871, he was the zoologist in charge 

 of an expedition to Greenland in Swedish warships Ingegard 

 and Gladan. In 1874 he was instructor in zoology at the 

 Royal University, and there received the degrees of A. M. 

 and Ph. D. In 1875 he was the Secretary of the Royal Swed- 

 ish delegation to the International Geographical Congress at 

 Paris. Later in the year 1875, and until some time in 1877, 

 he was the Secretary of the Royal Swedish Commission to the 

 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. After the work of 

 the Commission was ended in 1877, he concluded to remain 

 in this country, only returning to Sweden to be married. His 

 wife was Sophie, the daughter of ?^Iajor C. A. Pahlman, a 

 woman of noble birth and of charming personality. Mrs. 

 Lindahl died September 15, 1909. Soon after his marriage, 

 he brought his bride to America, and from 1878 to 1888 he 

 was Professor of Xatural Sciences at Augustana College at 

 Rock Island, Illinois. The following five years, or until 1893, 



