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an ascent of Mount Halcon (2,587 meters) and a study of the 

 Mangyans 9 were uppermost in his mind. He visited the island 

 for the first time in 1894, and a second time in the following 

 year, bringing back valuable results from each trip. In spite 

 of the germs of malaria lurking in his veins, he had planned 

 a third trip to Mindoro which was to take him to the top of 

 Mount Halcon in 1896, when death overtook him on January 26 

 of that year, at the early age of forty-four years. At the time 

 he was staying, for the sake of recuperation, at the house of 

 his friend, the Spanish governor Cadrana in Capiz, Panay. 



Schadenberg's work of exploration in the Philippines has 

 borne fruit in a number of papers of which he was the author, 

 as well as in a not inconsiderable literature on his discoveries 

 by others. A bibliographical list of these works is appended 

 and it has been made as nearly complete as possible. It finds 

 its natural supplement in his collections, which are found in the 

 museums of Dresden, Vienna, Berlin, and Leyden. How fruit- 

 ful Schadenberg's work in the field became for the scientist 

 confined to his study at home may be shown by an example. 

 Considering that Schadenberg's specialization lay in the field 

 of natural sciences, it cannot well be expected that linguistics 

 played more than a secondary role with him. Yet the Negrito 

 vocabularies collected by him in the Bataan-Zambales region 

 were considered worth being twice made the object of very pains- 

 taking examination by such an eminent authority as the late 

 H. Kern, of Leyden, 10 whose findings are as yet the last word 

 that has been said regarding such interesting questions as the 

 relation of Negrito speech to the Philippine languages, and the 

 presence in the former of possibly unrelated elements suggesting 

 remnants of an earlier and now extinct language peculiar to 

 this race of dwarfs. This is also true in regard to Schaden- 

 berg's collection of Mangyan writings on Mindoro, worked over 

 by Dr. W. Foy in Dresden. 11 Among the traits of character 

 that so peculiarly fitted Schadenberg for his work as an explorer 

 we distinguish, besides tenacity of purpose and fearlessness, 

 that sterling and directly convincing integrity which alone ren- 

 dered it possible for him to carry on his work in the midst of a 

 society of Filipinos, Spaniards of all classes, and crude moun- 

 taineers with their widely divergent ideals. He was welcomed 

 and given much aid in many a provincial convento or parsonage, 



•For the form Mangyan see Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) 135, 157. 

 " See appended bibliography under C. 1882 and 1893. 

 u See appended bibliography under B. 1895. 



