JOSUA LINDAHL, A.M., P.H. D. 



Dr. (Johan Harald) Josua Lindahl, for several years a 

 member of the Ohio State Academy of Science and once its 

 president, died in the City of Chicago, of bronchial pneumonia, 

 on April i8, 1912. F'rom the family it is learned that his illness 

 was short. He contracted a cold on the nth of April, he took 

 to his bed on the 14th ; later pneumonia set in, and on the even- 

 ing of the 1 8th he passed away without suffering. 



Dr. Lindahl was a man of rare scientific attainments and 

 won for himself distinction on two continents. His earliest 

 claim to recognition was as a zoologist. 



Born at Kungsbacka, Sweden, on January i, 1844, he re- 

 ceived his education at the Royal University at Lund. This 

 institution conferred on him the degree of A.B. in 1863. In 

 1870, he accompanied Gwyn-Jefl^ries and Carpenter, as as- 

 sistant zoologist in the British deep sea exploring expedition in 

 H. M. S. Porcupine. In 1871, he was the zoologist in charge of 

 an expedition to Greenland in Swedish warships Ingegard and 

 Gladan. In 1874 he was instructor in Zoology at the Royal 

 University, and there received the degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. 

 In 1875 he was the Secretary of the Royal Swedish delegation 

 to the International Geograpical Congress at Paris. Later in the 

 year 1875, and until some time in 1877, he was the Secretary 

 of the Royal Swedish Commission to the Centennial Exposition 

 in Philidelphia. After the work of the Commission was ended 

 in 1877, hs concluded to remain in this country, only returning 

 to Sweden to be married. His wife was Sophie, the daughter of 

 Major C. A. Pahlman, a woman of noble birth and of charming 

 personality. Mrs. Lindahl died September 15, 1909. Soon after 

 his marriage, he brought his bride to America, and from 1878 

 to 1888 he was Professor of Natural Sciences at Augustana 

 College at Rock Island, Illinois. The following five years, or 

 until 1893, he was Curator of the Illinois State Museum of 

 Natural History at Springfield. During the year 1894 he was 



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