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Catalogue is intended to be complete and to fully exhibit our knowledge 
concerning the group of which it treats as presented in the fauna of Indi- 
ana.” Init Call described, and for the most part figured, 185 species of land 
and fresh water shells from different parts of the State. In two years 
Daniels, by his close field collecting. found no fewer than 91 species not 
included in Call's catalogue. As up to that time he had had little experience 
in writing scientific papers, and as I was somewhat familiar with the sub- 
ject of conchology, we prepared a joint paper entitled “On some Mollusca 
Known to Occur in Indiana: A Supplementary Paper to Call’s Catalogue,” 
in which these 91 species were described and many of them figured. This 
was published in the Twenty-seventh (1903) Annual Report of the Depart- 
ment of Geology. In the same yolume was a paper by Daniels entitled “A 
Check List of Indiana Mollusca with Localities,” in which the 276 species 
known from the State were listed and their local distribution given. 
In 1905 Daniels returned to Laporte and later moved with his sister to 
a farm near Rolling Prairie in the same county, where he was living at the 
time of his death, which occurred in a Chicago hospital on October 23, 1918. 
During his later years I saw Daniels only a few times, and these usually 
on occasions of the winter or spring meetings of the Academy, or when he 
visited this city in connection with his Masonic duties, a fraternity in 
which he took much interest and in which he received the thirty-third or 
highest degree. I last saw him at the annual meeting of the Indiana Audu- 
bon Society at Michigan City in May, 1917. He then told me that, in com- 
pany with H. A. Pillsbry of Philadelphia, Junius Henderson of Boulder, 
Colorado, and Jas. H. Ferriss of Joliet, Illinois, all noted conchologists, he 
was making annual collecting trips to Idaho, Utah, New Mexico or Arizona 
in search of mollusks, reptiles, etc. The results of two of these trips were 
afterward published in joint papers by himself and Henderson in the Pro- 
ceedings of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science. 
Nearly a dozen species of fossil insects and shells were named in honor 
of Daniels by his co-workers and contemporaries. His private collection of 
land and fresh water shells was one of the largest and most complete in 
this country, and after his death was purchased by Bryant Walker of 
Detroit for the Museum of Zoology at Michigan University. His collection 
of fossil insects went to the museum of the University of Illinois. No 
disposal has as yet been made of his reptile collection. 
During our four years of association on the State Survey I found L. E. 
Daniels to be a conscientious worker, an honorable gentleman, a genial 
companion. He was one of the kind of men who do much and say little. 
Of such men there are too few on this earth today. In his death this Acad- 
emy lost a member of greater worth than is perhaps appreciated by most 
of us who are left. 
I append herewith a list of the published writings of Daniels as far as 
I have knowledge of them. In addition to the two already mentioned there 
are three others which deal with Indiana Mollusca and may therefore be 
of more than passing interest to some of the members of the Academy. 
These are numbers 1, 3 and 4 of those cited. 
