32 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN 
JENNY 
AT THE TIME OF THEIR MARRIAGE IN BOSTON, 1852 
Daguerreotype owned by Mr. Leonidas Westervelt of N. Y 
LIND AND HER HUSBAND, OTTO GOLDSCHMIDT 
medals, an envelope stamped with the head and 
bust of the singer, and various engravings, one 
of especial uniqueness, portraying the singer 
walking along the fallen tree in “La Sonnam- 
bula,” a part which it would seem was trying 
to her as was the hanging-from-the-bell scere 
in “The Heart of Maryland” to Mrs. Leslie 
Carter, for she closed her eyes when takinz 
the perilous steps, to render the part realistic. 
Mr. Ashley Cole exhibited a daguerreotype 
and autograph letter, program, and a copy of 
“The Jenny Lind.” a two-sheet newspaper pub- 
lished in Boston and printed in gold ink. 
and 
replicas of the program of her first concert at 
Castle Garden were sold for the benefit of the 
Numerous other relics were exhibited, 
same New York charities to which Jenny Lind 
contributed the proceeds of that concert. 
On October 6 a gathering at the Aquarium 
paid tribute to the birthday and the memory 
of Jenny Lind as woman and singer, to her in 
whom were combined the most lovable qualities 
of womanhood, the noblest instincts and aspira- 
tions of humanity, and that rare gift of song 
which gave rise to the expression “human night- 
ingale.”’ As Glorioli said to Litrebili, there are 
but two human nightingales born in every cen- 
tury—a male and a female. 
Dr. Johannes Hoving, who presided at the 
meeting, read cablegrams to and from the King 
of Sweden: 
October 4. 
“To His Majesty the 
“The Committee in charge of the Jenny Lind Cen- 
tennial Concert felicitates your Majesty and sends its 
respecttul greetings on the one hundredth anniversary 
of the birth of the great Swedish singer. 
King, Stockholn. 
sy - 
“Hovine, Chairman. 
“Marvin, Secretary.” 
October 6. 
“The Jenny Lind Committee. 
“Thanking for your kind telegram, I send my best 
wishes for the celebration of the memory of the 
famous daughter of Sweden, the great singer and 
noble personality, Jenny Lind. 
“Gusrar.” 
Mr. Madison Grant, as Chairman of the 
Executive Committee of the New York Zoologi- 
cal Society, welcomed the Swedish Minister and 
the y Lind Centennial Celebration Com- 
mittee and thanked them for the exhibition which 
they had installed in the New York Aquarium. 
Jenny 
Mr. Grant made some vitally interesting re- 
marks about the uniform independence of the 
Swedish people and the Scandinavian stock from 
which the “Nightingale” sprang, stating, among 
MADAME FRIEDA HEMPEL AS JENNY LIND 
Carnegie Hall, October 6, 1920. 
