258 PITTONIA. 
“Mr. Kumlien was no narrow man. He was passionately 
fond of painting, music and poetry. I have heard him 
repeat with a glow of delight verses from Runeberg and from 
the Vikingerbalk of Tegner’s Frithiof’s Saga, rendering the 
wonderful rhythm of the latter with exquisite grace and pre- 
cision. He was a man of most refined tastes, without any of 
the extravagant desires which such tastes often engender. 
He was satisfied to live most simply a life which philosophers 
might envy. 
“Higher than his intellectual accomplishments rose his 
moral qualities. The leading features of his character were 
harmlessness and truthfulness. It was as if the words 
Innocue vivito, numen adest, which he read in his youth on 
the door of the great Linné's study, had so thrilled him that 
every thought and every action vibrated with them to the 
moment of his death. No one was ever farther from slander- 
ing or speaking ill of his fellow-man, no one more fearful of 
paining any sentient thing. His love of truth was shown in 
the scrupulous accuracy of his observation, in his slow de- 
cisions on difficult matters and in his careful interpretation 
of the remarks of others. Truth was as sacred to him as to 
any of the glorious early naturalists, whose enthusiasm he 
inherited. That his innocence and love of truth were fixed 
and immutable features of his character is shown by his 
retaining them under the most adverse conditions of life. 
Nothing could tempt him to seek wealth for wealth's sake, 
nor to seek favors by even the smallest and most commonly 
practiced deceptions. 
* None who met Mr. Kumlien ever forgot his kind address, 
the lack of all affectation and the modesty and ease of his 
conversation. He was very fond of the young and always 
ready to put at their disposal his long experience as a practi- 
eal ornithologist and botanist. Such qualities are not to be 
underestimated in a naturalist, for they are the means of 
charming the young and making good naturalists of youths 
who would be repelled by a cold exterior. Many of our rising 
botanists and zoologists owe much to Mr. Kumlien’s warm 
