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with Mr. Sullivant in the production of the great Icones Mus- 

 corum he was constantly employed by the National Geological 

 Survey and numerous state surveys in tjie study of and report 

 upon specimens sent to him from the field. 



Honors came to him from institutions of learning and in 

 election to membership in a score of scientific societies in Eu- 

 rope. He was the first to be chosen for membership in our own 

 National Academy after its organization in 1863. His home in 

 Columbus during most of his later years was in a small brick 

 cottage on the back part of a lot on the corner of Mound and 

 Fourth Streets. All of the available land space was converted 

 into a flower garden in which much of his time was spent. His 

 ever loyal wife, who, for his sake, had given up social position 

 and rank (hardly a half dozen people in Columbus knew that she 

 was a baroness in her own right) was during all of his long 

 life his most efficient support and helper. The French language, 

 which she had first learned from him, she now spoke so per- 

 fectly that after the coming of his deafness he learned to read 

 her lip movements and it was in this way that much of his 

 intercourse with his friends was carried on. He survived her 

 death only a few years, dying in 1889, in the eighty-third year 

 of his age. 



A contemporary of the Sullivants and Lesquereux was Dr. 

 Theodore G. Wormley, the distinguished toxicologist, who, 

 though not a native of Ohio, was for a quarter of a century a 

 citizen and resident of Columbus. It was here his greatest 

 work was done and here he found his wife who was a most 

 important contributor to that work. Born in 1826, in the village 

 of Wormleysburg, Pennsylvania, founded by his Dutch ances- 

 tors, he was educated at Dickinson College and at the Philadel- 

 phia Medical College, from which he received his degree in 

 1849. I" 1^52 at the age of twenty-six years he came to Co- 

 lumbus as professor of chemistry and natural science in Capital 

 University and two years later he was appointed professor of 

 chemistry and toxicology in Starling Medical College, continuing 

 to serve as such until he resigned in 1877. Soon after assuming 

 his duties in the Medical College, he began a series of important 



