100 THE NADTI1A18. 



but this quiet fanner had courage, a known reputation for fair 

 play, and was trusted by both workmen and employer. There 

 were no complaints of violence in labor ditsputes during the 

 Daniels regime. 



The sheriff's rooms in the Grundy county court house at that 

 time contained one of the best collections of Mazon creek fossils; 

 for back in boyhood days the sheriff had become interested in 

 those famous Upper Carboniferous beds near his home. In 

 types, especially of insects, the collection contained many of the 

 rarest species. They were worked up in a memoir by Dr. 

 Handlirsch of Vienna, published by the National Museum. Mr. 

 Daniels still owned this collection, together with the accumula- 

 tions of many years of research in conchology, and the old 

 Illinois homestead at the time of his death. 



Mr. Daniels became interested in mollusks while a young 

 man, and for many years collected assiduously, particularly in 

 Indiana. For some years he was Assistant State Geologist of 

 Indiana. Some of the results of his investigations during this 

 period were published, in collaboration w'ith Dr. W. S. Blatch- 

 ley, the State Geologist, under the title "On some Mollusca 

 known to occur in Indiana," and by Daniels alone, " A Check- 

 list of Indiana Mollusca." Both appeared in 1903. At this 

 time herpetology was added to his other interests, and in later 

 trips the collection of snakes, horned toads and especially turtles 

 claimed part of his attention. 



Subsequently with Dr. Pilsbry, Junius Henderson and the 

 writer, he was associated in field work many seasons in the 

 wild places of North Carolina, Tennessee, Arizona, New Mexico, 

 Utah and Idaho. In 1910 he joined Dr. Pilsbry and the writer 

 in a collecting trip of several months in southern New Mexico 

 and Arizona, and in 1914, in company with the writer, explored 

 the Blue River region in Arizona and the MogoUon Mts., New 

 Mexico. Many new species of Sonorella, Ashmunella, Oreohelix 

 and Holospira were found on these excursions. In 1915 and 

 1916 Mr. Daniels joined forces with Prof. Junius Henderson in 

 hunting Oreohelices in Utah and Idaho. Their results were set 

 forth in two admiral;)le papers, published jointly, the first exact 

 and critical records for this fauna. 



