THURE KUMLIEN. 957 
“He was in constant communication with Dr. T. M. Brewer 
of Boston, from 1844 until Brewer's death in 1879, and was 
one of the largest contributors to the History of North Ameri- 
ean Birds, published by Brewer, Baird and Ridgway. Other 
correspondents were Professors E. Fries, Sundeval, Nielson 
and von Eylen of Sweden; Steenstrup, Sars and Loven of 
Norway ; Prof. Peters of Berlin, Count Turati of Milan, Prof. 
H. Sehlegel of Leyden, and Professors J. E. Gray, Alfred 
Newton and H. E. Dresser of England." 
In 1867 he received an appointment as Instructor in Botany 
and Zoology in Albion Academy, a collegiate institution which 
had sprung up within a short distance of his home. This 
place he filled most acceptably for some years. Later he was 
employed by the State of Wisconsin in forming and arranging 
collections for the State Normal Schools and University. 
From 1883 to the time of his death he held the place of Con- 
servator to the Milwaukee Publie Museum; a position which 
he was about to resign simply in order that he might retire 
and pass a peaceful old age at his quiet and secluded home 
near Lake Koshkonong. The dear companion of all his eazly 
and long years of frontier life, had passed to her rest some 
twelve or fifteen years before. His four children, three of 
them sons and all adult, were spared to him until early in the 
present year, when Frithiof, the youngest, died, and the 
father’s bereavement was most distressing. But there was 
no indication that his own end was approaching. A young 
man, indeed, for one who had so nearly filled out his three- 
score years and ten; neither mind nor body yet showing the 
infirmities of age. He was making ready for a return to the 
‘birthplace of his children, and now of his grandchildren, to 
be with them thenceforward. His own death came speedily, 
from accidental poisoning; and that after long years of 
experienee with the deadly chemicals of the botanieal and 
zoologieal laboratory. 
For an estimate of the general character of my friend, I 
shall again avail myself of the language of Mr. Wheeler, who 
was his colleague in later years : 
