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In January, 1898, Dan went to Bremen, 

 where his grandfathers' ancestors had lived for 

 nearly 300 years as burghers of the ancient 

 Free Town. Hardly a week had passed before 

 he had discovered the best naturalist in the 

 place, a well-known German ornithologist. He 

 writes to his father : 



" I got an introduction the other day to an 

 old gentleman Dr. Hartlaub here, who knew 

 your father and old Frederick Huth when he 

 was a volunteer in some office over here. He 

 is, I believe, the first ornithologist in Germany 

 and is eighty-six years old. He has not seen 

 Lord Lilford's plates of birds, so if you are 

 going to Mottisfont at any time, pick out two or 

 three parts, with Thorburn's pictures, not 

 Keulemann's, and send them to me here. I'll 

 be very careful with them." 



On Wednesday, the 9th day of February, 

 Dan was taken ill with what was at first 

 considered only a slight indisposition. His 

 wonderful good spirits and pluck, in bearing 

 pain, deceived his doctor, and it was not till it 

 was too late, and, indeed, only a few hours 

 before his death, that the gravity of his illness 

 was realized. He died early on Sunday morn- 

 ing, the 1 3th of February, 1898, after four 

 days' illness of peritonitis. The personal 



