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Professor of Greek in Augustana College, and the following year 

 he was Professor of Botany at ^Martin Lnther College, Chicago. 

 Late in the year of 1895 he became the Director of the Museum 

 of Cincinnati Society of Xatural History, and continued until 

 1906, when he removed to Chicago, and set up a laboratory for 

 the manufacture in Amer'ca of a chemical preparation known as 

 Salubrin, after the formula of his friend. Dr. Hakanson. of 

 Eslof, Sweden. He was manager of this laboratory at the time 

 of his death. In forty-two years of active participation in the 

 world's affairs, he had contributed in no small way to the 

 advancement of human knowledge. His mind seemed specially 

 adapted to the reception and rapid assimilation of scientific in- 

 telligence of any character. He was intensely interested in every 

 phase of scientific endeavor. His place among the scientists 

 of his day was fittingly recognized, when, in 1876, he was made 

 a member of the French Academy of Sciences, upon whose lists 

 are inscribed the name of such zoologists as P>aron Georges 

 Cuvier and the two Geoffroy-Saint Hilaire. Two years later, 

 in 1878, he was decorated by King Oscar H of Sweden with the 

 Royal Order of \"asa. He served a term as the President of the 

 Swedish Historical Society of America, and in 1900 he was 

 President of the Ohio Academy of Science. He was a member 

 of the American Society of Vertebrate Paleontologists ; of the 

 American Association of ?^Iuseums. and of the American Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science. In 1908 he was elected 

 a life member of the Cincinnati Society of Xatural History. 

 He was the author of various scientific papers and a frequent 

 contributor to American and European scientific journals. He 

 was as gentle and lovable in disposition as a child and compelled 

 the instant affection of all who came in contact with him. His 

 quiet and modest demeanor and want of aggressiveness doubt- 

 less lost him some prizes in life to which he was entitled. No 

 one who ever enjoyed the pleasure of an intimate acquaintance 

 with him would rank him far below the highest in the field of 

 natural science, ^^'^hile not given to boasting of himself, it is 

 well known that he was very proud of the fact that he was a 

 fellow-countrvman of the celebrated naturalist, Linnaeus. 



