244 THE AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 



by Brillat, The Prince and the Pauper Savarin, Innocents Abroaa, 

 by Mark Twain, What Shall We Do? by rschernyschevsky. Aftor 

 finishinjf at Upsala he took a post graduate course at the Carolyn 

 Institute at the University of Stockholm. In 1888 he came to 

 America and became an associate to Dr. Fleisburg at St. Paul 

 but longed for the frontier life of the new country and settled at 

 Willow City, North Dakota, then a primeval town of a few board 

 houses. Being the only physician in the whole county his zeal for 

 his profession kept him so busy travelling around to help the sick 

 that he was often eighteen to twenty hours without food. He was 

 during these strenuous times also president of the village council, 

 alderman, coroner, U. S. examining physician, and postmaster. 



Overwork forced him to relax for vacation from so many nu- 

 merous pursuits ; he left several times but always came back after 

 a few months. In. 1894 ^^ came to Leeds where he held office as 

 mayor, alderman and coroner besides his duties as physician. 



Dr. Lunell devoted his leisure time to the study of the flora of 

 his region. He published some of his investigations in the Botanical 

 Gazette and published several numbers of Contributions from the 

 Leeds Herbarium. Most of his later writings appeared in the 

 Midland Naturalist, notably a number of diagnoses of new species 

 and a list of the plants of North Dakota. Unprejudiced by codes 

 as a man of his broad classical training he throws aside any leaning 

 to nomenclature codes of present expediency and adopted system 

 of absolute priority of names for this list. He collected a large 

 herbarium (30,000 plants) the specimens being remarkably well 

 mounted, a collection which is scarcely without a peer in perfection 

 of technique, exactness and completeness in every detail. The 

 passing away of one whose love for nature was observation and 

 whose pursuit of knowledge of the plants of his region was an un- 

 selfish contribution to science leaves a gap that will be hard to fill. 

 The following notice in the Leeds News of June 3, 1920, brings out 

 other features of his life not already touched upon. 



A short time ago we were surprised to hear that Dr. J. Lunell was ill 

 at his home and that his illness was considered serious. Always an active 

 man and accustomed to be about daily it was hard to believe that we had 

 seen him on the street one day and that he was seriously ill the next. Such, 

 however, was the case. On Friday the news that he had passed away on 

 Thursday night was quickly spread through the city. Another pioneer had 

 passed to his reward. 



With the passing of Dr. Lunell this generation loses one of nature's 



